https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/files/original/1cb03b36065b9bb77479b0d1c3ec5b39.jpg e4c086a4f6da80e3ad6d4b5246d0c35a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caricatures Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A "theatre" of medicine and surgery Description An account of the resource An horrific omnium gatherum of the "heroic" medical and surgical treatments typical of establishment medicine around the time of the French Revolution. Two amputations are taking place. A friar holds a crucifix before the patient on the right. Near the middle, a woman with one exposed breast has a pair of amulets dangled before her eyes by a theurgist friar: perhaps she is portrayed as the next candidate for surgery (mastectomy). The setting is a hospital of the grandest kind: Christine Stevenson's 'Medicine and magnificence : British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660-1815', New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, discusses the rationales in Britain of such palatial buildings 1 drawing : pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil ; sheet 29.5 by 43.2 cm Medicine vessels lower right labelled "unguent balsa" and "ung. me" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johann Heinrich Ramberg The artist Ramberg was born in Hanover, the son of the war secretary of the Electorate of Hanover who encouraged his son in his vocation as an artist. In 1781 he sent him to England where he was introduced to King George III for whom he made a number of humorous sketches and caricatures. He was admitted to the R.A. schools by Benjamin West and he won a silver medal for life drawing in 1784. He exhibited twelve pictures at the Royal Academy (then at Somerset House) between 1782 and 1788, including his best known work 'Portraits of their Majesties and the Royal Family viewing the Exhibition of the Royal Academy' (now in the British Museum) In 1788, he visited the Netherlands and then Italy, returning to Hanover in 1792 where he was appointed court painter and spent the rest of his life Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1800 amputation caricature mastectomy surgery theatre tools