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An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.
Johann Eleazar ZeissigDate: 1798Reference: 20882i
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A travelling tooth-drawer and medicine vendor in a town near Rome. Engraving by A.L. Richter, ca. 1834, after D.W. Lindau.
Dietrich Wilhelm LindauDate: [1834?]Reference: 659102i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.
Date: 1767Reference: 20721i
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An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).
Thomas RowlandsonDate: [1800?]Reference: 645283i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
Date: 1927Reference: 28915i
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A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.
Choustrac, L.H., active 1905.Date: 1905Reference: 577178i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of an assistant who is extracting a tooth from a man from the audience. Process print.
Reference: 21011i
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Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Benedictus Antonio Van AssenDate: 1 April 1792Reference: 20579i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i
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An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.
Q215305Reference: 20449i
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An itinerant medicine vendor in England selling his wares inside a country inn. Coloured etching by T. Illman.
Date: [1820?]Reference: 20932i
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A street scene in Cairo with a street seller at work. Coloured lithograph by J. C. Bourne, c. 1840, after O. B. Carter.
Owen Browne CarterDate: [1840]Reference: 25464i
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Shops of hashish merchants on a street in Cairo. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, c. 1850, after himself.
Amedeo PreziosiDate: 1850Reference: 25471i
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A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20671i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Philips WouwermanDate: 1743Reference: 20496i
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Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
Reference: 20635i
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A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
Reference: 20542i
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An itinerant medicine vendor reciting from a piece of paper trying and sell his wares to a small audience. Facsimile reproduction of an etching by J. Both after A. Both.
Both, Andries Dirksz, approximately 1608-1641?Reference: 20473i
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An itinerant medicine salesman performing his sales pitch on stage to a small group of people. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20600i
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The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
William HogarthReference: 20634i
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A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
William James MüllerDate: 1840Reference: 25465i
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Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
Benedictus Antonio Van AssenReference: 20574i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
Helmbreker, Dirk, 1633-1696.Reference: 20514i
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An itinerant street vendor selling cures for corns. Coloured pen drawing.
Reference: 21058i
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A physician dispensing medicine through a window, a large group of patients are waiting their turn, a female assistant has a medicine chest suspended from her neck, Italy 17--. Coloured wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after H. Wallis.
Henry WallisReference: 21875i