Title supplied by curator., Artist's name and date etched on plate at upper left., Chicago Society of Etchers stamp on verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756)., 1 print : woodcut ; sheet 458 x 383 mm., and Printed on wove paper. Perhaps an impression published by Boydell after Mrs. Hogarth's death in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.171.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
Title supplied by curator., Carlo Losi was active in Rome., Date from item., In image bottom: Tyrones picturae Hbmo. et Exmo. Dno Iacobo Boncompagno Arcis Praefecto, ingenior(um) ac industriae fautori, Artiu(m) nobiliu(m) praxim, a lo Strade(n)si Belga artificiose expressa., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomy for artists.
Publisher:
Apud Carolus Losi
Subject (Name):
Boncompagni, Giacomo, 1548-1612,
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Human anatomy, Human dissection, Art, Study and teaching, Students, Artists, Sculpture, Paintings, and Dead persons
Title devised by curator., Signed in pencil on verso., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item. Title in Russian puns on "dom" which can mean smoke or house., Date and place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated in ink on verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons & Surgery., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Medicine, Rural, Knives, and Basins (Containers).
Title devised by curator., "I.C." in ink lower right., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Verso in pencil, "The Three Riders," verse, "HKB"., Signed HKB in ink lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Inscribed by the artist "Trilussa all'amica Piperno = 1936". Arrigo Piperno was a well-known dentist in Rome., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
