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A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
Date: Septr. 3 1795Reference: 46947i- Pictures
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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17152i- Pictures
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A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.
Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960.Date: 1909Reference: 15370i- Pictures
An itinerant quack-doctor. Oil painting by an English painter, mid-19th century.
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Pictures
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A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11828i- Pictures
An English fool acting as spokesman for a Dutch quack doctor; an ornate border composed of the paraphernalia of quackery surrounds his proclamation. Engraving by G. Bickham.
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An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
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W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 22nd 1889Reference: 13793i- Pictures
A man composed of testimonials for quack-medicines takes some medicine from a bottle in the vain hope of curing his syphilis or gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1944.
Karsakov, Leonard, 1917-1993.Date: 1944Reference: 678378i- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Pictures
A crowd watching a troupe of quack-doctors on a stage outside an inn. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1640(?).
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 45030i- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Pictures
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1743Reference: 22260i- Pictures
A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: 1 January 1803Reference: 10980i- Pictures
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A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
NoParty, Nathaniel, active 1812.Date: 1 Feb[r]u[a]ry 1812Reference: 38480i- Pictures
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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- Pictures
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A quack and a clown on stage presenting their wares to a hostile audience; referring to various politicians reactions to the replacement of the fixed duty on corn. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1841.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 15 May 1841Reference: 13436iPart of: HB Sketches- Pictures
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Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 20 June 1799Reference: 12187i- Pictures
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A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873Reference: 16753i- Pictures
A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Pears, Charles, 1873-1958.Date: 1912Reference: 15398i- Pictures
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 10756i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 544395i