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 and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Printmaker is also known as Pieter van der Heyden., Print depicts the "Cure of folly," removing stones from the head., Text in French and Dutch., 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: Folly; Stone (in the head).
Publisher:
Ioan Galle excudit
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill, Mental illness, Witches, Knives, Rocks, Surgery, Traditional medicine, Mentally ill persons, Violoncellos, Crutches, Water mills, Spectators, Eggs, and Owls
In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:
Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
