An itinerant medicine vendor performing with props to a crowd in Siena. Engraving by G.B. Polanzani after S. Pacini after G. Mei.

  • Mei, Bernardino, 1615-1676.
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20517i
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1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 39.3 x 28.6 cm

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Il ciarlatano. Quadro di Bernardno. Mei Senese alto Palmi rom. 8. largo. 3£. Santi Pacini dis. Gio. Btta. Polanzani inc. Bears number: XIII

References note

David Gentilcore, Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy, Oxford 2006, pp. 28-29 (reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 20517i

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