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Medium: Tempera and tooled gold on enframed panels with vertical grain
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (63.8 x 42.9 cm)

1 print : engraving ; image 16.5 x 10.6 cm
Lettering
Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum adornatum a Ioanne Riolano filio cum figuris.

xxiv, 616 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Frontispiece of Johannes Scultetus's Armamentarium Chirurgicum shows a man's leg being set. In the background hung on the wall are the surgeon's instruments of choice, including bone nippers and other shears. This treatise is moreso catered to…

1 print : 24 x 30 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
engraving, color

57 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

A photomechanical reproduction of the painting (heliogravure) that is pasted with a text explaining the artwork as if for a show

photogravure based on Gervex 1887 salon painting of Pean

Suffrages of the Saints
Saint Agatha, Folio 179r

Agatha was punished for refusing the advances of the Roman governor. She is tied to a column and her breasts are removed by attackers wielding huge clippers ; one attacker raises his knee to brace…

1 photomechanical print : 26 x 29 cm.
Technique:
halftone, black and white