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  • Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • An old woman wearing a ragged coat leans against the stump of a tree holding a broom in her right hand and a hat in her left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a fur cap with a feather seen from behind walking with two sticks. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • An itinerant poor saleswoman selling hearthstones. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An old itinerant salesman offering the repair of defect umbrellas. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
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    A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

    Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 43985i
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    An itinerant salesman selling reproductions of antique and modern sculptures from a timber board he balances on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

    Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 44004i
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    Discourses and essays on subjects of public interest / by Stevenson Macgill.

    MacGill, Stevenson, 1765-1840. | Date: 1819
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    An old woman wearing a ragged coat leans against the stump of a tree holding a broom in her right hand and a hat in her left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

    Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 44015i
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    A history of the charity hospitals of Louisiana : a study of poverty, politics, public health, and the public interest / Jonathan Roberts and Thomas J. Durant, Jr. ; with a foreword by Michael Butler.

    Roberts, Jonathan, 1935- | Date: [2010], ©2010
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