A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.

  • Gill, André, 1840-1885.
Date:
Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873
Reference:
16753i
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Paris (Bureaux 16, rue de Croissant, 16) : L'Eclipse, Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873.

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour (?)

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L'Eclipse. Les saltimbanques, par Gill. Arrachez! ne guérissez pas! And. Gill ; Lefman sc.

References note

Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome neuvième, Paris 1955, pp. 122-123, André Gill, no. 41 ('41. Dessins dans l'Eclipse, 1873: … Les Saltimbanques, qui préfèrent arracher que guérir …')

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Wellcome Collection 16753i

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