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Selling - Drugs

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  • A well groomed itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a smart carriage. Steel engraving by K. Schüler (?) after F. Piloty.
  • 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.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor proudly presenting his wares to a small group of people. Line engraving by J. van de Velde after W. Buytewech.
  • A party with music and actors entertaining the company. Oil painting attributed to Hendrick Goovaerts, ca. 1710.
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    An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.

    Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806. | Date: 1798 | Reference: 20882i
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    A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.

    Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm, 1799-1862. | Date: [1834?] | Reference: 659102i
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    An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.

    | Date: 1767 | Reference: 20721i
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    An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: [1800?] | Reference: 645283i
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    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

    | Date: 1927 | Reference: 28915i
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