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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. 1799
    Reference
    35692i
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  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.

    • Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
    Reference
    22033i
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  • An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.

    • Bolus, M.D., active 1752.
    Date
    [29 May 1752]
    Reference
    11404i
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  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.

    • Gillray, James, 1756-1815
    Date
    15 February 1796
    Reference
    17465i
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  • Animals wearing human clothes play sounds and sing from a score open on a table, while others attending dance; represesenting musical soirées held by Teresa Cornelys. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskerck.

    • Heemskerck, Egbert, active approximately 1700-1744.
    Date
    April 20 1771
    Reference
    33827i
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  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop clinging on to his bag, after two gentlemen (one of them Tristram Shandy's father?) had attempted to look inside it. Aquatint by J.H. Clark, 1820, after L. Sterne.

    • Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
    Date
    1820
    Reference
    22021i
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  • An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

    Date
    1789
    Reference
    16585i
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  • A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
    Date
    April 1st, 1745
    Reference
    38350i
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    Marriage a-la-mode
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  • A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.

    • Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814
    Date
    [1788?]
    Reference
    29532i
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  • An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.

    Reference
    11822i
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