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Costume - France

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  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • The aldermen of Paris reviewing plans for a statue of King Louis XIV; behind, seen in a mirror, the banquet held in 1687 to celebrate the recovery of the king from illness. Line engraving by P. Chenu after C.N. Cochin after N. de Largillière.

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    Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

    | Date: 1800 | Reference: 16128i
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    J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.

    | Reference: 23103i
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    Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1 November 1813 | Reference: 24833i
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    A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

    Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 26944i
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    Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.

    | Date: 26 [month?] 1803 | Reference: 12205i
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