[A Dutch surgeon dressing a boor's leg] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[A Dutch surgeon dressing a boor's leg] [graphic].
Contributor
Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638, artist.
Published / Created
[not after 1797]
Publication Place
England?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling

Description
Title devised by curator.
Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 201 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 30.7 x 26.1 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 35.3 x 26 cm
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Mezzotints England 1797
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Surgery
Subjects
Surgery
England > 1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13233414
Object ID (OID)
16729782

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