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Concept

Collective behavior

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  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.
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    An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.

    Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806. | Date: 1798 | Reference: 20882i
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    People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24007i
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    "The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.

    Reinhardt, Karl, 1818-1877. | Date: [1860?] | Reference: 2008536i
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    Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.

    Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817. | Date: 1 April 1792 | Reference: 20579i
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    An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.

    Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546. | Reference: 20449i
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