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A peripatetic medicine vendor entering a house in the Netherlands. Watercolour by R. Craeyvanger, 1866.
Craeyvanger, Reinier, 1812-1880.Date: 1866Reference: 726067i- Pictures
A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
Date: 20 November 1793Reference: 10973i- Books
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The speaker's speech to the Lords Justices on the 19th day of May, 1716.
Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: [1716]- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Pictures
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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i- Pictures
A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 12 February 1819Reference: 10742i- Pictures
A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 2065026i- Pictures
Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
Naiveu, Matthijs, 1647-1721.Date: [1700?]Reference: 45041i- Pictures
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A gouty man suffering with a painfully enlarged foot; presented by demons prodding it with arrows. Coloured etching, 1814.
Marks, John Lewis.Date: 1814Reference: 10647i- Books
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Dengan sale. Part the first; containing the books. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library, prints, paintings, Statues, Music, Mathematical Instruments And Superb Furniture Of At The Chapel which belonged to the late Right Hon. Earl of Mornington, at Dengan Castle, and which will begin to be sold by auction by R. E. Mercier and Co. at their house, No. 31, Anglesea-Street, Dublin, on Monday 18th May 1795, And The Following Days, Until All Are Sold. The Library consists of near 10,000 Volumes; amongst which are the following: Addison's Works, 4 vols. 410. Fielding's Works, 4 vols. 410. Milton's Works, 4 vols. 410. Pope's Works, 15 vols. 410. Spencer's Fairy Queen, 3 vols. 410. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vols. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vols. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London. Fabian, Grasion, Halle, and Holinshed's Chronicles. Anecdotes of Painting, 4 vols. - Strawberry Hill. Willourbby's Ornithology. Morison Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, 2 vols large paper. Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vols. large paper. Hogarth's Works, finest impressions. Darley's Comic Prints. Kip's Britannia Illustrata, 3 vols. Ionian Antiquities. Wood's Palmyra. Montfaucon's Antiquities. Spence's Polymetis, first edition. Evangelium Sanctum Arabice, 1590, Editio Princeps, a splendid copy. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vols. Platonis, Serrani, 2 vols. large paper. Albertus, Magnus, typis Wilhelmum de Mechlinia. Aratus. Editso Princeps. Lucretius, 1486. Editio princeps. Lactantius, 1478. Martialis, 1475. Ovidius, 1486. Valerius Maximus, 1478. Magna Charta, a curious MS. Illustrious Heads, imperial paper.
R. E. Mercier and Co.Date: [1795]- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue 163: The Walpole Galleries
Date: 19 October - 20 October 1920Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/382APart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine, 1723-1769.Reference: 15865i- Books
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May-Day: a poem. In four parts. Containing, I. The order of chusing the May Queen. II. The milk maid's garland. III. The chimney sweeper's garland. IV. The bunter's garland. Adorned with curious copper-plates.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Pictures
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The alarmist Miss Minifie informing Miss Gunning and her mother of their banishment from the general's house. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 25 March 1791Reference: 11904i- Archives and manuscripts
Sales catalogue: Curtis & Henson
Date: 01 May - 03 May 1933Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/430Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: May 23. 1799Reference: 35692i- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Pictures
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An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
Reference: 10970i- Pictures
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An emaciated patient protesting to his doctor, who is satisfied with his patient's demise. Watercolour.
Reference: 11224i- Pictures
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A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
Reference: 10646i- Pictures
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A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
Date: 1 October 1784Reference: 10974i- Pictures
Two doctors quarreling while their patient deteriorates. Coloured engraving by I. Cruikshank, 1794.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 24 December 1794Reference: 11647i- Pictures
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A quack doctor treating her patient's chilblains. Engraving after H.B. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 26 December 1782Reference: 11814i- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Williams, 1772, after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: Accor. to Act 10 June 1772Reference: 10783i- Pictures
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A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.Date: [1743?]Reference: 22165i