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A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.

The composition by Orr is based on that of a caricature by Cruikshank after F. Marryat, "Puzzled which to choose!! or, the King of Tombuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage to Capt. --" (British Museum, Catalogue of satires, no. 13043), in which the seated central figure (in place of Orr's portrait of Sambon) is the King of Timbuktu and the bowing guest (in place of Orr's portrait of Blanchard) is Captain George Francis Lyon (1795-1832), the leader of an expedition to northern Central Africa (Libya and Sudan, but not Timbuktu). Among other adaptations by Orr, the central woman is piebald in reference to Blanchard's writings on "nègres pies" (partial albinos); the Union Jack on the left is replaced by the French tricolore; and the king's bodyguard holding skulls on spears are replaced by portraits of students and professors of tropical medicine: left to right, Cantlie with the head of Christophers, Manson with the head of possibly Sir William Macgregor, William Orr with the head of R.T. Leiper, and William's cousin James Gilchrist with the head of Ronald Ross. The head identified as Cantlie could be J.W.S. MacFie. The head of a man on the far left standing below the French flag is also a portrait, of an unidentified Frenchman
The depictions of the African women are based on Sarah Baartmann, the "Hottentot Venus"

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

The inn-sign shows the sign of the scorpion. "In July 1819 Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Secretary of State at the Vatican, ordered Sonnino to be razed to the ground as it had become a notorious haunt of the banditi in the Campagna di Roma." (Wikipedia)

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 31.5 x 40.8 cm

Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.

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The art of shooting flying: containing directions for the choice of guns: experiments discovering the execution of barrels of different lengths and bores. ... The fourth edition. By T. Page, Norwich; ...

King's evil is also called scrofula: it can be described as a form of tuberculosis which affected the lymph nodes in the neck. The origin of the term lies in the belief that a royal personage was endowed with healing power directed particularly to this ailment. This tradition lasted in England from Edward the Confessor until the reign of Queen Anne in 1714. It also existed in France

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 30.3 x 39.6 cm

Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 21.3 x 15.3 cm

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A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.

The art of shooting flying: containing directions for the choice of guns: experiments discovering the execution of barrels of different lengths and bores. ... The fourth edition. By T. Page, Norwich; ...

Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.

Catherine Bigot, a deaf-mute woman whose deafness was so complete that she was unaware of a gun being fired above her head. Engraving.

Anthropomorphic cats, out shooting snipe on a winter's day. Lithograph, ca.183-, by R. Seymour.

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A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.

The art of shooting flying: containing directions for the choice of guns: experiments discovering the execution of barrels of different lengths and bores. ... The fourth edition. By T. Page, Norwich; ...

Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.

Catherine Bigot, a deaf-mute woman whose deafness was so complete that she was unaware of a gun being fired above her head. Engraving.

Anthropomorphic cats, out shooting snipe on a winter's day. Lithograph, ca.183-, by R. Seymour.

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