An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
- Larmessin, Nicolas de.
- Date:
- 1695
- Reference:
- 22282i
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Publication/Creation
1695
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image 25.8 x 18.4 cm
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Lettering
Habit de chirurgien.
References note
A. Weber, Tableau de la caricature médicale .., Paris 1936, p. 47., plate 41
Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome sixième, Paris 1973, p. 554, no. 15
Reference
Wellcome Collection 22282i
Creator/production credits
According to Weigert, loc. cit., the engraving is either a posthumously published work by Nicolas de Larmessin II (1638?-1694) or, more probably, executed by his younger brother Nicolas de Larmessin III (c. 1645-1725)
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Location Status Access Closed stores