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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…

11 volumes : plates (some folded) ; (folio); Vol. 10 containes the frontispiece to the Encyclopédie.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)

A woman of about 40 years of age in a lace cap, wearing a dark purple dress, open to below the bosom, and a yellow shawl, her right breast surgically removed, the wound open; 1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 61.5 x 49 cm; Cancer of the breast. Mrs.…

A case of breast cancer; 1 print : engraving ; image and text 7.2 x 6.3 cm; He cut off a very large cancerated breast from the body of Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, in 1689, and perfectly cured her: For that and many other considerable cures, he hath…

The Martyrdom of St Agatha; standing on a raised platform with two men torturing her by the shearing of her breasts, a woman and child crouched in the foreground, God the Father surrounded by putti above
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over…

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…

The saint tied to a tree at centre, two men shearing her breasts with large tongs, hills and a city in background; copy in reverse after Cornelis Cort who engraved after Giulio Clovio
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Signed in…

the saint tied to a column at centre; flanked by two henchmen holding shears; another crouching at right, fanning a fire
Height: Height: 260 millimetres
Width: Width: 184 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Signed at…

Height: Height: 446 millimetres
Width: Width: 247 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered in margin below: 'Iohannes Bapta Tiepolo inv et pinx. Io. Dominicus filius del. et fecit'

Plate 20: St Agatha and an angel; after Guercino. St Agatha, standing on the left, clutches her mutilated breasts while on the right an angel approaches her with an ointment jar. 1706
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 358 millimetres
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