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20 results for “"Costume - England - History - 18th century."”
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  • A shoeless blind girl is led by a dog on a path. Stipple engraving by T. Gaugain, 1785, after J. Northcote.

    Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
    Date
    3 January 1794
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  • A shoeless blind girl is led by a dog on a path. Sepia stipple engraving by T. Gaugain, 1785, after J. Northcote.

    Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
    Date
    20 May 1785
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  • Buxton, Derbyshire: the Crescent. Aquatint.

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  • Cambridge: distant prospect of the town. Line engraving.

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  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by P. Maguire after J. Gillray, 1796.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
    Date
    1796
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  • The street outside the William's Library, Cheltenham. Line engraving.

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  • Clare College, Cambridge: bird's eye view of grounds with coat of arms. Line engraving.

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  • A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.

    Dodd, Daniel.
    Date
    1802
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  • A group of women gather around a fainted woman, while a concerned man looks on, with an ornate border. Line engraving by W. Angus, 1782, after T. Stothard.

    Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
    Date
    19 January 1782
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  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.

    Date
    17 April 1779
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  • A lady and two children with a dog under a tree in a country park. Etching by P. Sandby, c. 1752, after himself.

    Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
    Date
    1752
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  • A hamlet in England (Nuneham Courtenay?): land-workers by a stream, with a house, a dog, and cattle. Etching by P. Sandby.

    Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
    Date
    [Approximately 1760?]
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  • A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.

    Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
    Date
    10 August 1782
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  • 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
    1769
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  • A wealthy patient falls over having a tooth extracted with vigour by a fashionable dentist. Watercolour, 18--.

    Date
    1790
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  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.

    Date
    [27 February 1769]
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  • Richard Dickinson, an eccentric man who imagines he is a king, from Scarborough. Engraving.

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  • Protesting licentiates marching to the Royal College of Physicians in 1767. Coloured etching by J. June, 1768.

    June, John.
    Date
    [as the Act directs 1 September 1768]
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  • A devious itinerant medicine vendor and assistant perform their sales pitch to a suspicious audience, against the backdrop of the Tower of London. Etching, 1792.

    Date
    Publish'd as the Act directs 25 September 1782
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  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.

    Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.
    Date
    1 April 1792
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