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A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

Two etchings of urns by G.B. Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings of marble vases by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of a marble vase and a marble tripod on a base, by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of a marble vase and a terracotta vase by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of an urn and a marble vase by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of a marble urn and a marble vase by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of two marble vases by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings of a terracotta urn and a marble tripod by G. B. Piranesi.

A gouty invalid conversing with a a young man. Coloured etching.

19 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates :
illustrations ;
28 x 36 cm.

Phrenology exemplified and illustrated, with upwards of forty etchings

Etchings of a marble urn and two bronze lamps

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe,

Two etchings by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770 

A marble vase placed on an urn and a stand supported by a sculpture of three nude women.

Two etchings by G.B. Piranesi (a marble vase and stand)

Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Etching by J. Egez.

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909) was a maverick physician who practised what later came to be called complementary or alternative medicine. He had a consulting room in Paris to which he commuted from his house in Auvers-sur-Oise outside the city. He was an art lover, being an amateur artist, an art collector, and a friend of many artists, one of them being the Dutchman Vincent Van Gogh. Gachet and Van Gogh only knew each other for a couple of months, from 20 May 1890 when Van Gogh arrived to stay in a lodging house in Auvers, to 27 July 1890, when he shot himself. Van Gogh, suffering from a form of mania, was producing one painting a day at that time, but, with Gachet's help, was able to draw this etched portrait to be printed on Gachet's printing press, probably after Sunday lunch at Gachet's house on 15 June 1890. Gachet's moist-eyed portrayal reflects Van Gogh's impression that Gachet was "sicker than I am", but it could in turn result from the fact that the sitter was looking at the artist and contemplating his lamentable mental state. This impression of the print was bought by Henry S. Wellcome from Gachet's son, Paul Louis Gachet, in 1927, together with many other items of Gachet personalia. The cat in the bottom margin is the stamp certifying the print's provenance from Paul-Louis Gachet.

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A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

Two etchings of urns by G.B. Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

A gouty invalid conversing with a a young man. Coloured etching.

Phrenology exemplified and illustrated, with upwards of forty etchings

Etchings of a marble urn and two bronze lamps

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe,

Two etchings by G.B. Piranesi (a marble vase and stand)

Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Etching by J. Egez.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.

William Rutherford. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.

William Leybourn. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1657.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Etching by Schleuen after B. Rode.

William Spottiswoode. Etching by P. Rajon after G. F. Watts.

A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.

Ernst Soner. Etching.

Sir Arthur Keith. Etching by A. W. Turnbull.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Etching by E. Boilvin, 1894.

Samuel Tuke. Etching by C. Callet.

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A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

Two etchings of urns by G.B. Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

A gouty invalid conversing with a a young man. Coloured etching.

Phrenology exemplified and illustrated, with upwards of forty etchings

Etchings of a marble urn and two bronze lamps

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe,

Two etchings by G.B. Piranesi (a marble vase and stand)

Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Etching by J. Egez.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.

William Rutherford. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.

William Leybourn. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1657.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Etching by Schleuen after B. Rode.

William Spottiswoode. Etching by P. Rajon after G. F. Watts.

A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.

Ernst Soner. Etching.

Sir Arthur Keith. Etching by A. W. Turnbull.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Etching by E. Boilvin, 1894.

Samuel Tuke. Etching by C. Callet.

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