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Believed to be a fragment of an engraving printed from the original copperplate after it had ceased to be of use for printing engravings. The copper sheet was cut up and the top right corner, used to print the top left corner of the engraving, was…

Use of a surgical tool rather than a blacksmithing tongs

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…

Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925

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…

Interior view: a small snarling dog is keeping two handicapped men and a woman with a tumor on her neck away from a physician sitting at a desk in his office.

Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.

(For description and further comment, see impression of BM Sat. 8051: 1935,0522.1.176)
Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in…

"Interior view: a woman with a young child are standing next to a physician who is holding a urine flask; in the background other physicians? are holding flasks; a satyr and a monkey at the top of the page are indicative of the fallacy of the…

xvii, 241 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables ; 22 cm

Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale