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.
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Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873
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16753i
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris (Bureaux 16, rue de Croissant, 16) : L'Eclipse, Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873.

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour (?)

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L'Eclipse. Les saltimbanques, par Gill. Arrachez! ne guérissez pas! And. Gill ; Lefman sc.

References note

Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome neuvième, Paris 1955, pp. 122-123, André Gill, no. 41 ('41. Dessins dans l'Eclipse, 1873: … Les Saltimbanques, qui préfèrent arracher que guérir …')

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Wellcome Collection 16753i

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