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A man bearing a hooka. Coloured stipple print, c. 1828.
Date: 1828Reference: 25400i
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A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 10972i
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A physician examining a person dressed as Pierrot who lies in bed, in the background another person in a similar costume is grieving. Etching by E. Champollion after T. Couture.
Thomas CoutureReference: 22158i
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A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
Date: May 29th 1805Reference: 33038i
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An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
Charles BargueDate: [1852]Reference: 16384i
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop arriving at the home of Tristram Shandy, where Mr. Shandy is seated with a friend and smoking. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after L. Sterne.
Laurence SterneDate: 1820Reference: 22023i
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Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
Spilsbury, Mary, 1777-1823.Date: 3 July 1802Reference: 25345i
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Dr. J. Alibert taking serum from a servant's baby to vaccinate the child of Mme Desbordes-Valmore. Photograph, 1938, of a painting by C. Desbordes, 1822.
Desbordes, Constant-Joseph, 1761-1827.Date: 1938Reference: 17856i
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A midwife wrapping the Virgin Mary in swaddling clothes after receiving her first bath; Anne is recuperating in bed. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1764, after G.B. Cipriani after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro da CortonaDate: 1764Reference: 21522i
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A wealthy Chinese man sits at home smoking: two servants stand nearby. Coloured aquatint by T. & W. Daniell, c. 1810.
Thomas DaniellDate: 1 August 1810Reference: 25454i
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An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Charles KeeneDate: 1880Reference: 13822i
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A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, JohnReference: 12074i
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Judith and her maid hide Holofernes' head. Woodcut.
Reference: 20971i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who virtually falls off his chair in pain, a servant hovers in the background. Etching.
Reference: 16620i
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Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28714i
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A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, JohnDate: 28 January 1804Reference: 12051i
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A young fashionable apothecary-surgeon (?) about to give a sick wealthy lady an enema. Engraving by A. Bosse, 16--.
Abraham BosseDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 16068i
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A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
Fernand Louis GottlobReference: 17196i
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A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
James GillrayDate: 28 January 1804Reference: 12050i
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A woman wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages after breast feeding it, several other women and a small child sit with her. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Reference: 17560i
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The cookmaid's complete guide, and the art of cookery made easy : being the best and easiest methods of correctly fulfilling all the duties of the cookmaid, in respectable families. With instructions for steaming; and the most exact directions ever given for properly preparing to cook, for cleanly and nicely cooking and genteely serving-up, all kinds of provisions ... The whole written from practice and experience / by a lady.
Date: 1850
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A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Abel FaivreDate: 22 March 1902Reference: 17072i
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A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.
Richard NewtonDate: 10 August 1797Reference: 10971i
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A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
Verney Lovett CameronDate: [1876]Reference: 21303i
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A footman descends from the back of a coroneted carriage which stands at a pillared portico. Lithograph, 1830.
John DoyleDate: July 27 1830Reference: 651171i