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Fools and jesters

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  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts), who duped several doctors into believing she had given birth to a litter of rabbits: twelve episodes. Etching.
  • An English fool acting as spokesman for a Dutch quack doctor; an ornate border composed of the paraphernalia of quackery surrounds his proclamation. Engraving by G. Bickham.
  • At the Opéra ball, King Louis Philippe (centre) as a clown is confronted by Charles Philipon (right, representing the journal Caricature) and Louis Desnoyers (left, representing the journal Charivari), both dressed as jesters. Lithograph attributed to Korff, 1834.
  • Fools carved on the finial of the staff of the Compagnie Mère-Folle (Mère-Folie) at Dijon, 1482. Line engraving by or after B. Picart.
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    Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

    Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 22108i
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    Fools carved on the finial of the staff of the Compagnie Mère-Folle (Mère-Folie) at Dijon, 1482. Line engraving by or after B. Picart.

    | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 16036i
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    The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

    Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718. | Date: 1691 | Reference: 17932i
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    Two designs for flags possibly for a theatrical company. Engraving by P. Yver, 1743.

    Yver, Pieter, 1712-1787. | Date: 1743 | Reference: 34047i
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    Fools and jesters: with a reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of ninnies, 1608 / With an introduction and notes [by J.P. Collier].

    Armin, Robert, active 1610. | Date: 1842
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