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Images referencing Manners and customs

89 images from works
  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • A popular art and antique auction. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
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Works from the collections

174 works

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Ethnology
Costume
History, 19th Century
Shamans
Medicine, Traditional
Upper class
Ceremonial Behavior
Social Participation
Jewelry
Meals