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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop clinging on to his bag, after two gentlemen (one of them Tristram Shandy's father?) had attempted to look inside it. Aquatint by J.H. Clark, 1820, after L. Sterne.
Laurence SterneDate: 1820Reference: 22021i
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A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
John CollierDate: [1908]Reference: 21878i
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A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
Reference: 12116i
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A Chinese lady in a blue dress, seated, right, looks out of a window at a water-garden, left; trees in blossom in the foreground. Gouache.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 727425i
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A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.
Frederick MarryatDate: 1 August 1835Reference: 869i
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An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.
Date: 1789Reference: 16585i
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A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
Lavrinet (Painter to the King of Sweden)Reference: 16026i
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A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.
Reference: 11646i
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A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10510i
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: October 1807Reference: 11876i
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A surgeon tending a woman who has just fainted after bloodletting; she is supported by female members of her family. Engraving by Garlieb after Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.
Neer, Eglon van der, 1635 or 1636-1703.Reference: 23467i
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King George IV having his gouty foot massaged by his mistress Marchioness of Hertford while his wife Queen Caroline listens in the doorway. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
Reference: 11203i
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A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
William HogarthDate: April 1st, 1745Reference: 38350i
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Richard NewtonReference: 11867i
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A woman prepares to bathe a baby aided by an older girl who pours water into a bowl. Engraving after A. Chisholm.
Alexander ChisholmDate: 1800-1899Reference: 27627i
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A man vaccinating a small girl, other girls with loosened bodices wait their turn apprehensively. Gouache by L. Calkin, ca. 1901.
Calkin, Lance, 1859-Date: 1901Reference: 20221i
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A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1847Reference: 25973i
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Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
George CruikshankDate: 1842Reference: 35750i
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A vase of flowers, books, a violin, artist's palette and brushes all sit on a table in a room with panelled walls. Chromolithograph after E.G. Handel Lucas.
Lucas, Edward George Handel, 1861-1936.Date: [1909]Reference: 33124i
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A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
Samuel CollingsDate: 1803Reference: 586040i
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A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 1 September 1813Reference: 11063i
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A Chinese lady in a red dress, seated indoors, takes a meal from six small bowls; right, two herons look on, hungry for food. Gouache.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 727426i
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A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.
Adriaen van OstadeDate: 1641-1784Reference: 17411i
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A man surrounded by a feast while professing to have no appetite, his doctor observing how yellow he and his surroundings appear; suggesting the man's jaundiced view of life. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11200i