The infallible mountebank, or, Quack doctor [graphic].

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Title: The infallible mountebank, or, Quack doctor [graphic].
Alternative Title: Quack doctor
Published / Created: [1670]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A satiricial broadside on Hans Buling, a Dutch mountebank in London; with an engraving partly after Marcellus Laroon, showing an interior with the quack doctor Buling on the left, bearded and dressed in an elaborate costume with cape, a broad collar and soft-brimmed hat, holding in his right hand a sheet of paper, in his left a small medicine bottle, at his feet to the left a medical chest, bottles, spatulas, and at his feet to his right a monkey; in the right background a curtain from which a Merry Andrew emerges, dressed in a Harlequin costume; with engraved title and verses in two columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two columns of verse, separated with ornamental border, below image: See! Sirs, see here! A doctor rare ...
Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: phial -- Animals -- Chest of medicine -- Mountebanks -- Hans Buling, fl. 1670.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1670
Engravings England London 1670
Etchings England London 1670
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Quacks
Medical equipment & supplies
Monkeys
Subjects: Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Quacks
Medical equipment & supplies
Monkeys
England > 1670
England > London > 1670

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