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An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.

Artificial hands: designs. Pen and ink drawing.

Alles in einer hand.

"Hands of a stranger": advertisement for film. Colour lithograph, 1962.

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Alles in einer hand.

"Hands of a stranger": advertisement for film. Colour lithograph, 1962.

Artificial hands: designs. Pen and ink drawing.

An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.