The infallible mountebank, or quack doctor [graphic].

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Title: The infallible mountebank, or quack doctor [graphic].
Contributor: Laroon, Marcellus, 1679-1772, artist.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library)
Published / Created: [ca. 1688-1705]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Date from copy in British Museum.
Part of image after Marcellus Laroon.
Description from the British Museum copy: 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.
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Extent: 1 print : trimmed sheet 32.5 x 23.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works)
Engravings
Material: engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Buling, Hand, active approximately 1670-1680.
Subject (Topic): Quacks and quackery
Patent medicines
Medical equipment and supplies
Medicine shows
Monkeys
Clowns
Subjects: Buling, Hand, active approximately 1670-1680
Quacks and quackery
Patent medicines
Medical equipment and supplies
Medicine shows
Monkeys
Clowns

Access: Public
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