An itinerant medicine vendor on stage promoting his wares with the aid of a guitarist to an amused audience. Colour soft-ground etching by W.W. Ryland, 1773, after F. Albani, 164-.
- Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.
- Date:
- 1773
- Reference:
- 20452i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
The people in the audience include the painters Giovanni Lanfranco (far left), Sisto Badalocchio (third from left, with hat and long hair), Francesco Giovanni Gessi (dwarf-like figure, centre), Giacomo Cavedone (third from right), Alessandro Tiarini (second from right)
Publication/Creation
[England] : CR edid.t, 1773.
Physical description
1 print : soft-ground etching, printed in sanguine
References note
R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 2, no. 10 ("Carricatur auf des Meisters Kunstgenossen. Rothstein. J. Richardson Samml. W. W. Ryland sc. Br. 11" 3'"., H. 7" 8"'. Rogers, Collection 63.")
Reference
Wellcome Collection 20452i
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- Quacks and quackery
- Direct selling
- Audiences
- Traveling sales personnel
- Entertainers
- SellingDrugs
- Performing arts
- Theater
- Musicians
- Painters
- Lanfranco, Giovanni, 1582-1647.
- Badalocchio, Sisto, 1585-
- Gessi, Francesco Giovanni, 1588-1649.
- Albertinelli, il dottor.
- Cavedone, Giacomo, 1577-1660.
- Tiarini, Alessandro, 1577-1668.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores