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Hec est tabula de matrice mulierum et impregnatione
References note
L. Crummer, "Early anatomical fugitive sheets," Annals of Medical History, 5, no. 3, 1923, p. 198, fig. 7
J. G. de Lint, "Fugitive anatomical sheets," Janus, 28, 1924, pp. 89-90, fig. 7
C. Singer, The fasciculo di medicina (Venice 1493), Florence 1925, pp. 22-26

"This fugitive sheet was in the collection of the medical historian Dr LeRoy Crummer, who dated it to ca. 1525-153. It is based on a Gravida figure, showing the dissection of a owman with a pregnant uterus, in Johannes de Ketham's Fasciculo de medicina, published in Venice in Italian in 1493 (Roberts and Tomlinson 1992, p. 42, pl. 8). Although the 1493 plate is radically different in its naturalism from the schematic, squatting Gravida figure which appeared in the first De Ketham edition in Latin in Venice 1491, the information given in the lettering to the plate is essentially the same and is repeated in the lettering on the fugitive sheet"]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/b34jepm6]]> Is part of: Les indiscrétions de Lavater.; See related catalog record: 60310190R
lithograph]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101449102]]> The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...
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1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 24.6 x 16.8 cm
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]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uj59e8xf]]> ]]> Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am unentbehrlichsten. Auf der 92 sten seite des vierten Theils Siche Antons Paussa von Mancha abhandlung von Sprüchwörtern."
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At Graham's feet stands a duck, on a label coming from its beak are the words "Quack. Quack. Quack", and a thistle indicating his Scottish origin. Other objects on the platform are the model of a cannon inscribed 'Coelestial musick' and two jars, one inscribed 'Leyden vial charg'd with load stones aromatic spices, &c. &c. &c'; the other 'Tin foil or antidote'

Above the further side of Graham's table (left) appear the heads and shoulders of two gigantic porters who were part of Graham's establishment. One (left) labelled Gog stands full-face, a placard round his neck: 'Temple of Health & of Hymen', the name of Graham's establishment at Schomberg House, Pall Mall, in allusion to his 'celestial bed' for the cure of sterility. The other footman, 'Magog', is in profile to the right. Attached to the wall above their heads is a stuffed alligator inscribed 'Cured of the dropsey & gout in the stomach'. Beneath this is a shelf, on it are a pestle and mortar, a bust, perhaps of Galen, and a monkey seated in profile to the right holding up a phial in imitation of Graham

Katterfelto's stage is a flimsy rectangular structure supported on thin planks, with cross planks, one decorated with a skull and cross-bones, the other by insects, &c. (a butterfly, centipede, moth, and worm). He crouches over a cylindrical conductor supported on a pillar, similar to, but not identical with, that of his rival; it is inscribed, 'Positively charg'd'; his feet rest on the base of its pillar, a trident on its other end touches a barrel-shaped electrostatic generator which is being turned by a devil with horns and breasts, who says, "Away with it my dear son I'll find fire eternally for you". Katterfelto embraces his electrical conductor with one arm, while his right hand points at Graham; sparks come from his thumb, forefinger, and wig, from a spike on the front of his conductor, and also drop from his chin. He is saying "Dare you was see de vonders of the varld, which make de hair stand on tiptoe, Dare you was see mine tumb and mine findgar, fire from mine findger and feaders on mine tumb - dare you was see de gun fire viddout ball or powder, dare you was see de devil at mine A[rs]e-- O vonders! Vonders! Vonderfull vonders!"

The chain of sparks from Katterfelto's chin drops on to the touch-hole of a toy cannon at his feet so as to fire it in the direction of Graham. His attitude and profile express intense excitement, and his whole person appears charged with electricity; the hair on his forehead stands up, his long pigtail queue flies out behind him as do his coat-tails. Other objects on his platform, besides the electrical appliance which he is grasping, the devil's generator and the cannon, are a Leyden jar, a small rectangular box inscribed 'Arcanum sublimum' and 'Mask'd battery', a toy windmill, a square bottle inscribed 'Tinctr Aurum Vivae', a thunder-house, raised above its base, inscribed 'Thunder house', a bag or small sack inscribed 'Aurora Borealis', and an insect resembling a scorpion (one of the wonders of nature). Beneath the platform is a 'Reservoir for dead insects destroy'd by Dr Katterf[elto]'; insects are indicated carved on the plank"]]> ]]> Exhibited in "Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton" at the National Maritime Museum, London, 1 November 2016 - 1 April 2017
Exhibited in "Medicine Man" at Wellcome Collection, 15 April - 7 October 2019]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pcmnzd8t]]> ]]>