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The print contrasts Pitt's use of cash to support his Austrian allies with Napoleon's use of military force. Pitt is represented both as an accoucheur or man-midwife (he has a pair of forceps labeled "Income tax" sticking out of his pocket) and as a…

Manuscript X 188 in the National Library of Sweden dates to around 1425--35 and contains two works by John Arderne (active 1307--70), an abridged version of De arte phisicali et de cirurgia (Of the physical arts and surgery) and Fistula in ano. Also…

Medium: Engraving

Dimensions: 3-1/4 x 1-7/8 in. (8.3 x 4.8 cm)

Inscription: Lettered monogram lower right: 'MAF'

3 volumes, folded plate ; (8vo)

2 images - microscopic view and images of infants

"In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which many believe was…

This version discusses tumors and its cures. The frontispiece shows a physician pulling a folly stone from a naked man while in the background framed by an architectural structure, a female statue stands with the caduceus

1 print : 26 x 33 cm.
Technique:
engraving

1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color

1 print ; 39 x 29 cm.

1 photomechanical print : 26 x 29 cm.
Technique:
halftone, black and white