L'intervento chirurigal

L'intervento chirurigal

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Folli, P., artist
Publication:
[Italy : s.n., 1925?]
Language(s):
Italian
Format:
Still image
Genre(s):
Caricatures
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
A satirical rendering of an operating gallery. A group of men in c18 wigs and white aprons attack a naked body on an operating table. Each of the men dismembers the body with various tools: a hammer, a saw, a cleaver, a knife. Dismembered body parts and shown hanging above the body. A pool of blood gatheres on the tiled floor.
Copyright:
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Extent:
1 print : 35 x 36 cm.
Provenance:
Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
Technique:
lithograph, hand-colored
NLM Unique ID:
101457519 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
C05485
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101457519