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"From a large number of initials cut from choir-books, attributed to the miniaturist active in Lombardy in the decades around and after 1500, some are signed B. F. (or B.). The identification of the artist is controversial. Wescher would like to…

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (34.3 x 22.3 cm)

hot-pokers are used to torture saint agatha

"This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha…

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper (?), partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper with gold leaf remnants from a previous mount; verso: red chalk and…

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…

Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…

1 print : 41 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color

1 print : half-tone, printed in colour ; image 14.8 x 12.3 cm.

La torture est-elle bonne pour les goutteux?... Page 5. de Losques. Éditée par la "Pipérazine Midy"