Quack in London.- [Harrison (Thomas)] [Broadside satirising a quack doctor in London, with street scene of a crowd of people surrounding "Waltho Van Claturbank, High German Doctor"], etching and engraving on laid paper with armorial watermark, vignette in the upper section with three columns of text underneath with the doctor's speech, sheet 385 x 257 mm (15 1/8 x 10 1/8 in), with flap, 430 x 257 mm, the flap with erroneous pen and ink inscription 'The Earl of Rochester's Mountebank Speech on Tower-Hill', trimmed to or just within the platemark, , minor small nicks to extremities, small repaired tear to flap at upper centre, unframed, [circa 1713 to 1765]
⁂ Scarce at auction, with institutional examples held in the Wellcome and British Museum. "Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor, chymist & dentifricator ... have the Panchymagogon of Hermes-Trisme-giftus, an Incomparable Spagyric Tincture of the Moons Horns, which is the only infallible Antidote against the contagion of Cuckoldom ... [and I] have actually performd such cures as are really beyond human abilities ... [and you will find me] not far from Titter Tatter Fair, and you may see, hear, and return, re-infecta."
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