print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3338
- Title
- Object: The High German Doctor, and the English Fool.
- Description
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A broadside on quackery and gullibility; an English Fool extols the efficacy of the medicine of a "High German Doctor" who can cure the ills of the body and of society; at top right, the Doctor is shown in a carriage drawn by a pair of horses on one of which sits a man dressed as a Turk; at top left, the Fool or Merry Andrew stands on a bench; decorative borders on either side with medicine bottles, pestles, mortars, etc. and with engraved title and text in one column.
- Production date
- 1690 (c.; this impression 1740s)
- Dimensions
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Height: 325 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Quack doctors in England in the late 17th century were often referred to, or described themselves, as the "High German Doctor"; see also, for instance, a satire on Waltho van Claturbank, 1868-8-8-13211. This print is probably a reissue of the 1740s of a print of some fifty years earlier; Stephens dates it c.1690.
For another impression, see 1860,0623.59
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3338