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Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper (?), partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper with gold leaf remnants from a previous mount; verso: red chalk and…

"From a large number of initials cut from choir-books, attributed to the miniaturist active in Lombardy in the decades around and after 1500, some are signed B. F. (or B.). The identification of the artist is controversial. Wescher would like to…

23,2 x 16 cm

Use of a surgical tool rather than a blacksmithing tongs

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)

Messing penning. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild, geflankeerd door twee leeuwen boven cartouche met opschrift. Keerzijde: klos, haspel, weversspoel en platte schaar onder kroon binnen omschrift

Materialbrass (alloy)
Techniquecasting /…

On this page of the Litany, a series of invocations to favored saints, the first saint appealed to is Saint Agatha: S[an]c[t]a Agatha ora pro nobis (Saint Agatha, pray for us). The pattern is followed for the prayers to Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, and…

Work Type
Humorous pictures. Ink drawings.
Material
india ink over pencil ;
Measurements
sheet 25.7 x 17 cm
Description
1 drawing :
The artist shows sutures where the breasts have been removed. Three Bavarian passers-by are open-mouthed with…

A woman, looking downwards, her upper body exposed showing her right breast destroyed by cancer
1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 36.5 x 50.5 cm
Lettering: Entire destruction of the breast by cancerous ulceration. See Miss Moseley's case Oct 1828.…

Shows stages 2-9 in the breast cancer suffered by Mrs Broadbent of Leeds from late 1840 to early 1841. The watercolours are silhouetted to the shape of the cancerous area, and stitched together at one side so that the entire sequence can be flicked…

Surgery: cancer of the breast, field operation, just before the final cut.
Plate L