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A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
Busby, Thomas LordDate: 1826Reference: 10644i
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The court of good counsell : VVherein is set downe the true rules, how a man should choose a good wife from a bad, and a woman a good husband from a bad. Wherein is also expressed, the great care that parents should haue, for the bestowing of their children in mariage: and likewise how children ought to behaue themselues towardes their parents: and how maisters ought to gouerne their seruants, and how seruants ought to be obedient towards their maisters. Set forth as a patterne, for all people to learne wit by: published by one that hath dearely bought it by experience.
Date: 1607
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The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth. Engraving by B. Eredi after F. Barocci.
Federico BarocciReference: 21726i
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A doctor diagnosing a cat with mumps and prescribing a remedy. Wash drawing, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 11744i
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An Aboriginal woman with three children. Photograph, ca.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 541320i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
Laurence SterneDate: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 22015i
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A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11900i
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A physician examining the urine and taking the pulse of a bare chested female patient, a disdainful fashionably dressed woman approaches the invalid's bed. Etching.
Reference: 21739i
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A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving, 1749, after J. Hoskins.
Hoskins, John, 1566-1638.Date: Published according to Act of Parliament 1749Reference: 29721i
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A woman being shown her newborn child for the final time before she receives the last rites. Engraving by A.H. Payne after C. Piloty.
Karl von PilotyReference: 17670i
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A deaf man being made fun of and shouted at by his friends. Drypoint by A. Casanova y Estorach, 1877.
Casanova y Estorach, Antonio, 1847-1896.Date: 1877Reference: 18034i
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Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
Miguel de CervantesReference: 22039i
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A woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.
Jan VerkoljeReference: 17482i
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An ornate vase and pedestal with a lady and her servant carved on the side, in a classical garden. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
Simon SchijnvoetDate: 1701Reference: 26617i
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The birth of the Virgin Mary, a 'virga' (shoot) from the genealogical tree of Jesse. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1778, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
DomenichinoDate: 1778Reference: 21794i
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An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
Frans van Mieris the ElderDate: 1819Reference: 21684i
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A man holding a peacock feather and a gold fan, with a woman holding a spear. Gouache, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 728156i
Part of: Indian practitioners of crafts, trades and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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An ill man reluctantly taking his medicine. Etching by W.H. Brooke after R. Dagley.
Richard DagleyDate: [1821]Reference: 11880i
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A doctor taking the pulse of a grave looking patient, his servant holds a bottle and bowl. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
Reference: 11205i
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Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
Miguel de CervantesDate: 1700-1799Reference: 3005804i
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An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: 30 November 1829Reference: 11184i
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A man caresses a woman; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
Abraham BosseDate: 1600-1699Reference: 26947i
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A man sits smoking at a table as a woman brings him drink. Engraving by L. Gaineau, 1785, after G. Mieris.
Mieris, G.Date: 1785Reference: 24844i
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A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
Dawes, William, active 1760-1774.Date: 12 March 1768Reference: 18061i
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A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
George Francklin AtkinsonDate: [1860]Reference: 21825i