1 print : etching ; platemark 18 x 22.7 cm

Pitt says: "Why I tell you Doctor Buonaparte, nothing can effect a complete deliverance but my prescription of mint seed, it is the most efficacious remedy in the world". Napoleon replies "I deny that, Doctor, my pills are far more certain in their operation & much quicker in their effect, for instance you have been 14 months in attempting to deliver Italy & I have delivered her in a day, but I refer you to Dr Melas & Dr Kray who have both tried my pills & found them irresistible. therfore Dr if you do not immediatly acknowledge the superiority of my pills, by Mahomet I will make you -". Dundas replies, "Hoot mon, I never knew a country man of mine but would prefer the mint seed to aw the republican pills in the world".
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrapkw3h]]> Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the nation: sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons, Oxford 2005, p. 312]]> De arte phisicali et de cirurgia ; Fistula in ano; Obstetrical treatise]]>
- Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- "Shelfmark: X 118"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- Original resource extent: Roll of 12 pieces of parchment ; 542.5 x 36 centimeters.
- Original resource at: National Library of Sweden.
- Content in Latin.
- Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.]]> ]]> https://lccn.loc.gov/2021667922]]> ]]>
Dimensions: 3-1/4 x 1-7/8 in. (8.3 x 4.8 cm)

Inscription: Lettered monogram lower right: 'MAF']]>
Artist: After Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))]]> https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/342866
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957]]>
Henri Delaborde Marc Antonio Raimondi étude historique et critique, suivie d'un catalogue raisonné des ouevres du maitre. Paris, 1887.]]>
2 images - microscopic view and images of infants
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The figure is much more masculine in the print than in the painting. Unclear which came first. See Pierre Poncet. Most likely print first (commissioned by Vesalius). Painting done afterwards not affiliated with Vesalius.]]> ]]> Technique:
engraving]]> Coypel, Charles Antoine, 1694-1752, artist
Contributor(s):
Toullain, artist]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101393076]]> ]]> Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color]]> Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, lithographer
Contributor(s):
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862, artist]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101393140]]> Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, engraver
Contributor(s):
Cochrane, W., artist
Sommers, Thos. (Thomas)]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101412253]]> ]]> Technique:
halftone, black and white]]> Panderen, Egbert van, 1581-1637?, artist
Contributor(s):
Gelle, Johann, 1580-1625]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101407187]]>