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Central scene shows rivalry between doctors and their respective quack remedies. The scenes below show 'a few specimens of the public in general!!', while the six scenes at the bottom begin with a fat woman tending pots at a stove, 'Ruling the…

"This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval…

1 print : 41 x 27 cm.
Technique:
etching, color

Shows stages 2-9 in the breast cancer suffered by Mrs Broadbent of Leeds from late 1840 to early 1841. The watercolours are silhouetted to the shape of the cancerous area, and stitched together at one side so that the entire sequence can be flicked…

18th century engraving with frame from First French Empire (1804–1814). Discovered at Luxeuil. Pellerin (of Epinal) had near identical wood block in his possession, which he was using c. 1814. SA: Agatha of Sicily, Christian saint, d. c.…

Plate 18: Martyrdom scenes with St Agatha being tied to a pillar in foreground, her sheared breasts lying in front of her, the Popes Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded in left background, St Tryphon hung from a tree and beaten in left background,…

St Agatha; kneeling to left in front of a prison, with one severed breast, praying to a vision of St Peter standing blessing her; behind to left she is roasted alive on hot coals; within an oval frame and with a vertical panel of ornamental…

St Agatha standing between two trees, her left arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription…

St Agatha, standing full-length, heads turned in profile to left, holding a pair of shears with her breast
Engraving
Height: Height: 70 millimetres
Width: Width: 47 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered with a…

groups of sketches and drawings from Piranesi (f.3-17), studies for works entitled 'Landscape with Ruins', 'Ecstasy of St Agatha', 'Fiery Kind' (f.50-60?), 'Flagellation', drawings from the Castello Sforzesco, studies for a series of works for the…