Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.

  • Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898.
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Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The word lorette was used to mean a prostitute because many prostitutes lived in the neightbourhood Notre Dame de la Lorette (Therese Stamm, Gavarni and the critics, Ann Arbor 1981, pp. 125-158)

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1 print : lithograph ; image 23.6 x 20 cm

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Chez le docteur Cromm ... Lettering continues: -Docteur, avez pitié d'une pauvre lorette qui est bien malade ce vieux papillon de Verhaegen m'a laissée dans un état!...-Ma chère, votre guérison est impossible, vos virus doctrinaires sont trop. [On woman's dress:] Echo parlement. [Above the two skeletons, left to right:] Conservateur conserve. Vieux liberalisme. [On right-hand board:] Traitement politique. Guerison des affections doctrinaires et conservatrices par le Dr. Cromm. Facile a suivre en secret ou a la chambre! [Above pickled animals:] Loi Tesch-Lelievre mort-née. En putrefaction. [Above pickled head:] Conservé sans esprit. Presidence chambre. [On lowest flask:] Dépuratif. Rops-Boiveau. Laffecteur dedié au ministere. Felicien Rops

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