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Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving by G. Scott, 1803.
Date: 1 Feb[ruary] 1804Reference: 20927i
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People writhe in pain among the fiery serpents as Moses produces the brazen serpent. Line engraving after F. Fenzoni.
Ferraù FenzoniReference: 18336i
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A hunchbacked physician talking to a patient who has a deformed hip. Engraving.
Reference: 21815i
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Petronius, bishop of Bologna, with Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Costa, 1502.
Lorenzo CostaReference: 25353i
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The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
Pieter Brueghel the ElderReference: 16499i
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The resurrected Christ appears as a pilgrim to two disciples. Aquatint with etching by T. Patch after Fra Bartolommeo.
Fra BartolomeoReference: 23310i
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Scenes from the life of Moses before the Exodus. Etching, 1799.
Date: 30 November 1799Reference: 18238i
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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.
Benedictus Antonio Van AssenDate: 1 April 1792Reference: 20577i
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Rome: two women carry baskets of vegetables across a stream towards the Palatine, followed by a woman with a stick. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Peter Paul RubensDate: [1638?]Reference: 3063514i
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Doctor Diafoirus, a physician from Molière's play Le malade imaginaire. Coloured etching.
Reference: 21966i
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A sick man in bed, attended by a physician, and surrounded by members of his family weeping and praying. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid after J.P. Haid, 17--.
Haid, Johann Philipp, 1730-approximately 1806.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 5116i
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In front of a grand palace, Moses draws water from a rock. Etching by J. Le Pautre.
Jean Le PautreDate: 1600-1699Reference: 18267i
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Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.
Date: 22 March 1791Reference: 31286i
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A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
Abraham SolomonReference: 21990i
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Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
Reference: 22120i
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A Chelsea Pensioner, standing in a landscape: a building, flying the Union flag, behind him. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
Date: 1813Reference: 31464i
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A gouty patient consulting his physician. Etching after E.A. Abbey, 1891.
Edwin Austin AbbeyDate: 1891Reference: 21819i
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A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by R. Houston after A. van Ostade.
Adriaen van OstadeReference: 21690i
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A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.
Adriaen BrouwerReference: 22624i
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A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
Harrison, W. H.Reference: 16319i
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Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Engraving after J.B. Molière.
MolièreReference: 21962i
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.
Reference: 25623i
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Job lies on a pile of dung dressed in a loincloth and covered in boils, his wife goes to fetch a bucket of water. Woodcut.
Reference: 17904i
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A naked man with hemiplegia walking with a stick: (above) from the side, (below) from the front. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Eadweard MuybridgeDate: 1887Reference: 572329i
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Two men with sticks walk along a meandering path between a church and a river. Etching, ca. 1700 (?).
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2921396i