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A doctor in purgator!!
1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Les œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré ... Avec les figures et portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, et de plusieurs monstres. Le tout divisé en vingt six livres.
9 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves, 945 pages, 2,223 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : woodcut illustrations & portraits ; (folio)
A "theatre" of medicine and surgery
An horrific omnium gatherum of the "heroic" medical and surgical treatments typical of establishment medicine around the time of the French Revolution. Two amputations are taking place. A friar holds a crucifix before the patient on the right. Near…