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1 print : photogravure ; platemark 16.8 x 24.5 cm
Lettering
Ambroise Paré pratiquant la ligature des artéres sur un amputé. (Siége de Metz - 1553). Salon de 1889. T. Chartran.

engraving

Leaflet advertising George Jones' Friendly Pills, Balsam and Electuary. These were supposed to cure: scurvy, lameness, stone, dropsy, gonorrhoea and other venereal diseases, urinary disorders, ulcers, worms, constipation, gangrene, pain, cough, ague…

The three named quacks occupy the top of the shield, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal which another holds. Two pairs of crossed human…

"Holbein prepared this cartoon for a large-scale work to commemorate the grant of a royal charter to the Company of Barbers and the Guild of Surgeons on their merger in 1540. Presumably at the request of his clients, Holbein based the design on that…

photogravure based on Gervex 1887 salon painting of Pean

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

1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone, color

taken from a book

photochemical reproduction

"Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) a noteds surgeon who practiced in Bern, Switzerland, was the first to advocate removal of both breast and axillary glands in carinoma mammae. He denounced the red hot knives and..."

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