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1 print : etching ; platemark 42.8 x 34.9 cm

A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.

The medicine vendors have set up their stage on the corner of a street marked by a sign as Quay de l'Ecole: does this refer to the Ecole de Dessin, Lille, where the dedicatee of the print was professor? Or an Ecole de Médecine, as a comment on the medicine-vendors? Left, across the street, a large building with a portico and pediment
The medicine vendors' banner contains lettering "Par permission de Mr. le Lieutenant G[énéra]l de Police" and a painting of the medicine vendor healing the leg of a gentleman or nobleman

1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 25 x 19.1 cm

A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.

The medicine vendor, left, has stopped outside a shop bearing as its shop-sign two pewter bowls (one of them a barber's bowl) and the inscription "La coupelle. Pour la" ("The Assay-house. For ..."): the inscription may be a comment on the medicines being offered for sale. The vendor has vials of medicines in his saddlepack. He wears a tall striped hat and a fur-lined cloak suggesting eastern origin (Saxony or Poland). Left foreground, a soldier beats a drumroll to accompany the vendor's sales-talk

A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 43 x 34.7 cm

An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.

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A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.

A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.

A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.

An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.

Leuk Spa, Switzerland: mount Gemmi. Etching by I.S. Helman after J.J.F. le Barbier.

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A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.

A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.

A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.

An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.

Leuk Spa, Switzerland: mount Gemmi. Etching by I.S. Helman after J.J.F. le Barbier.

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