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[Urine examination at a physicians' office or laboratory]
"Interior view: a woman with a young child are standing next to a physician who is holding a urine flask; in the background other physicians? are holding flasks; a satyr and a monkey at the top of the page are indicative of the fallacy of the…
Phisicgongius von Grillenburg
1 print : 34 x 22 cm.
Technique:
engraving
Technique:
engraving
Consultation of Physicians
The three named quacks occupy the top of the shield, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it. Two pairs of crossed…
Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris
1 print : wood engraving ; image 10.8 x 16 cm
Lettering
Ambroise Paré apprenti-barbier, chirurgien a Paris. J. Ansseau. Morin.
Lettering
Ambroise Paré apprenti-barbier, chirurgien a Paris. J. Ansseau. Morin.
Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies
1 print : engraving ; image 28.4 x 16.1 cm
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.
A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees
Description
A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur…
A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 46.4 x 27.4 cm
The martyrdom of Saint Agatha
1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.4 x 18.3 cm; Dedicated to Prudentia, the daughter of the painter Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), who was a nun in the convent of Saint Agatha in Florence; S. Agatha, virgo et martyr. Venerabili ac religiosae virgini…
Upholstery: a roll of fabric (top), tools (below)
1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.9 x 41.4 cm
"Tapissier, façon du point glacis, et outils. ; Radel del. ; Benard fec."
"Tapissier, façon du point glacis, et outils. ; Radel del. ; Benard fec."
Chirurgie
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…