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A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
Noël, Alphonse Léon, 1807-1884.Reference: 16879i- Pictures
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A barber shaving a large man draped in a sheet. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30410i- Pictures
Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 15843i- Pictures
A doctor holding a sharp surgical instrument in which to operate on a cross-eyed yokel, in a room with other patients. Etching by "Sly Dick".
Dick, Sly.Reference: 16556i- Pictures
A daughter hides her thoughts from her ailing father as to his condition. Coloured lithograph by [J.S.].
S. J.Reference: 16380i- Pictures
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Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 15847i- Pictures
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A man with a broken leg is having its muscles stimulated by an electrical machine. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
Jones, E., active 1917.Date: 1917Reference: 569419i- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Pictures
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A barber cutting a customer while shaving him; the customer retaliates by biting the barber's finger. Coloured aquatint by G. & C. Hunt after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1820-1829Reference: 30392i- Pictures
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A woman screaming as she has her hair dressed by a male hair-dresser; the hair-dresser jumps in fright; on the left side a maidservant looks on. Etching.
Reference: 31380i- Pictures
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Pastimes: listening to a precocious chiild, creating a sculpture, a life class for women, and an artist's reminiscences of plein-air painting in Italy. Coloured lithograph after H. Monnnier, 1839.
Monnier, Henry, 1799-1877.Date: [1839]Reference: 33131iPart of: Récréations- Pictures
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People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1834Reference: 37253i- Pictures
A doctor advising a patient to have all his teeth removed; the patient agrees and said that they never fitted from the day they were put in. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1931.
Belcher, George Frederick Arthur, 1875-1947.Date: 1931Reference: 15499i- Pictures
An apothecary riding a horse that is out of control and knocking over everything in its way. Etching by W.E.G.
G., W. E.Reference: 15939i- Pictures
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An elderly woman reading a novel by the fire asks her maid to change her library books, with a preference for romantic fiction. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 33680i- Pictures
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A doctor (Joseph Chelius) takes the pulse of a young woman who warms to his presence. Coloured etching, ca. 1831.
Date: 1831Reference: 17845i- Pictures
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A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: [c. 1829]Reference: 16558i- Pictures
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Some people climb up the steps to the top of a slide, others slide down the other side in couples. Lithograph, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34604i- Pictures
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24124i- Pictures
A young man outside a pharmacy and unfortunately bumping into his creditor. Aquatint by D.T. Egerton after himself.
Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797-1842.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 15978i- Pictures
A young man, 'Sir Fopling Flutter' ogles women through a lens while a bailiff serves him a writ. Mezzotint, 1769, by J. Dixon after himself.
Dixon, John, 1720-1804.Date: 1769Reference: 16317i- Pictures
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A barber shaving a man. Mezzotint.
Date: 24 March 1777Reference: 30510i- Pictures
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Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.
Cham, 1819-1879.Reference: 16466iPart of: Miroir Caricatural- Pictures
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A barber cutting the hair of a man who is largely bald. Coloured etching.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29807iPart of: Scenes in London- Pictures
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
Date: 4 June 1806Reference: 16623i