Browse Items (414 total)

MEDIUM tempera on panel
DIMENSIONS 55 3/4 x 43 1/8 in. (141.6 x 109.5 cm) frame: 69 × 56 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (175.3 × 144.1 × 11.4 cm)

A case of breast cancer; 1 print : engraving ; image and text 7.2 x 6.3 cm; He cut off a very large cancerated breast from the body of Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, in 1689, and perfectly cured her: For that and many other considerable cures, he hath…

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12.5 x 10.3 cm

Watercolour drawing of superficial ulceration surrounding a nipple (eczema of the nipple) and covering a hard cancer of the breast.

Watercolour drawing of a case of eczema of the left nipple associated with scirrhous of the breast. The cancer was undergoing atrophy. It occurred in an anaemic woman, aged 48 years.

Torso of a statue of Venus, seen from the front. Mid-1520s
Black chalk.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 11.7 cm
Lettering continues: "A remarkable walking bookseller quack doctor &c. &c. hawking old books as Mosess do old cloaths. Stop gentle reader & behold a beau in boots, searching for gold, a walking bookseller,…

from a newspaper documenting lives of doctors

1 print : 40 x 27 cm.
Provenance:
Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
Technique:
wood engraving, black and white

Dialogue includes: Mr. Punch sings, sotto voce:- Begone, Dulcamarac I prythee begone from me! Begone, Dulcamara, Thou and I will never agree! ...

The quack hawks his wares. The description states woe over ability of quacks to perform surgery and…

1 print : 15 x 17 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color