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Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

Davidson, NORTH CAROLINA

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  • Air: de Mr. de Craque, Late 18th or early 19th Century
  • Hand-colored etching
  • 11.5 x 15.75 in (29.21 x 40.01 cm)
  • Inv: 3738
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attributed to Jean Baptiste Genty

Gift of John A. Welsh III, Class of 1959

A doctor with abnormally large ears stops a pharmacist in the Paris street to ask for a cure for his ailment. A bat flies overhead. The caption at the bottom details the conversation between the two caricatures.

Conversation:

The doctor: Yes, I have crowds of patients / You've got to see me running around every morning / From the Estrapade (square / street in Paris) to the streets / And from the streets to Faubourg St Martin (street)

The Apothecary: But would you not after all these walks across Paris be exhausted?

The doctor: What do you think? After all, all these patients are at each ends of crossed directions!

  • Subject Matter: Narrative
  • Current Location: Collection Storage - Flat Storage
  • Collections: John A. Welsh III '59 Collection, Printmaking, Vital Signs: Art, Medicine & the Human Body

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Eyeglasses (Anteojos), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging by Susan Harbage Page
Myself as a Pilot by Anne Noggle
Clever Hunter, Two Foxes by Gay Rogers
Bishop In a Tree by Robert Ernst Marx
Chance and Order V by Kenneth Martin
Country Accident by André Kertész
Unidentified Men by Andy Warhol
Untitled by Leopold Hugo
Dante, I Had Not Known That Death Had Undone So Many by Tom Phillips
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