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Mass Behavior

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Psychology, Social
Human behavior
Social action

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Images from the collections

Images about Mass Behavior

28 images from works
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.
  • People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.
  • Christ being circumcised in a crowded temple; God is visible with the angels in the sky heralding the start of the Passion. Etching by BM, 1793, after Titian (?).
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of assistants and snakes to a captivated audience, Tianjin, China. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1858, after T. Allom.

Works from the collections

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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.

    Johann Eleazar Zeissig | Date: 1798 | Reference: 20882i
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    Interpersonal and group behaviour / Judy Gahagan.

    Gahagan, Judy | Date: 1975
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    People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24007i
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    "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.

    Carl Reinhardt | Date: [1860?] | Reference: 2008536i
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    Group psychology and the analysis of the ego / by Sigm. Freud ; authorized translation by James Strachey.

    Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse. English | Date: 1922
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Related topics

Direct selling
Selling - Drugs
Traveling sales personnel
Audiences
Quackery
Costume
Performing arts
Psychology, Social
Dogs
Peddling

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