Gentleman giving out medicines to beggars, 18th century

English gentleman dispensing his medicine cabinet to beggars at Ivry-sur Seine, 18th century. He gives aerated salts to a one-armed soldier, Bruchsal elixir to an old woman, and magnetic drops, Glauber salts and dry biscuit. Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yvri. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel's Reise in die mittCIglichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785'"1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821

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