EditorialPiskijker and peasant family, A piskijker at work behind a table with bottles, next to him and behind him figures with bottles in hand. With a mirrored text on a plate above the viewer: though he perceives the piss / he dicwils wrong, unprofessional or...
EditorialQuack, with elegantly dressed bystanders Market, series A (series title), A market with a quack left on it a stage, with many bystanders behind it. On the right another quack with instruments displayed on a barrel, surrounded by elegantly dressed figur...
EditorialQuack, with elegantly dressed bystanders Market, small copy and (series title), A market with a quack on the right, with many bystanders seen on the back. On the left another quack with instruments displayed on a barrel, surrounded by elegantly dressed...
EditorialQuack, A quack stands behind an open-air table and praises its goods, quack, charlatan, mountebank, 'saltimbanco', Nicolaes van Haeften (mentioned on object), Paris, 1694, paper, etching, h 174 mm ? w 126 mm.
EditorialA group of people gather before a stage on which a mountebank displays his goods on the left, next to two ecclesiastics and a street-seller surrounded by small children in the middle and a couple walking past a puppet show on the right in the foregroun...
EditorialMountabanck. The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the L. P. Tempest: [London, 1688?]. A mountebank (charlatan). A person who sold quack medicine in public places. A pet monkey holds a rope attached to his waist. Image taken from The Cryes of t...
EditorialA quack with his medicine and a small monkey. The Infallible Mountebank, or Quack Doctor. [A copperplate engraving, with verses.]. 1750?. Source: C.121.g.9.(211.). Language: English.
Editorial'The antic fellow and Sikes.' Bill Sikes takes refuge in a public house in Hendon: 'There was a fire in the tap room and ... This was an antic fellow, half pedlar and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, stops, razors...
EditorialChevalier John Taylor, notorious apothecary, mountebank and quack doctor, who trained a man to act as a blind man so that he could restore his sight. Died 1776. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable...
EditorialFrench mountebank with sword and stuffed fox selling potions in the Place du Louvre. Lithograph after Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.
EditorialSir William Read, cobbler and tailor who became a mountebank, quack doctor, and finally oculist to King George I and Queen Anne, died 1715. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.
EditorialA German mountebank blowing his own trumpet at a Dutch concert of 500 piano fortes, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist, London, 1818, Logier, the music-master, is delivering one of his musical lectures with demonstrations by his pupils.
EditorialA German mountebank blowing his own trumpet at a Dutch concert of 500 piano fortes, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist, London, 1818, Logier, the music-master, is delivering one of his musical lectures with demonstrations by his pupils.