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Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (34.3 x 22.3 cm)
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (34.3 x 22.3 cm)
Annunciate Angel, the Apostle Andrew, a Bishop Saint (Savinus?), and Saints Dominic and Francis of Assisi [left]; Virgin Annunciate and Saints Bartholomew, Lawrence, Lucy, and Agatha [right]
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)
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (63.8 x 42.9 cm)
An antidotarie chyrurgicall, containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions use: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written, partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land
3 unnumbered leaves, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves ; (8vo)
no illustrations
Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's…
no illustrations
Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's…
A doctor in purgator!!
1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Bildersammlung aus der Geschichte der Geschichte der Medizin
1 photomechanical print : 26 x 29 cm.
Technique:
halftone, black and white
Technique:
halftone, black and white
Doctor Cullen
1 print ; 39 x 29 cm.
Oui mon oncle, mon vertueux oncle
1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color
Mr. de Pourceaugnac
1 print : 26 x 33 cm.
Technique:
engraving
Technique:
engraving
De Medicina (On Medicine)
This version discusses tumors and its cures. The frontispiece shows a physician pulling a folly stone from a naked man while in the background framed by an architectural structure, a female statue stands with the caduceus
Andreas Vesalius
"In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which many believe was…