Visiting the sick

Visiting the sick

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Tavernier, Jules, engraver
Publication:
[New York : Harper's], 1873
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Genre(s):
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
Two well-dressed women offer alms and a basket of food to a sick woman who sits covered in a shawl in run-down quarters. A young child stands at a table and looks at the basket of food, while another child, also apparently sick, sits on the floor next to the chair in which the sick woman sits.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 photomechanical print : 41 x 28 cm.
Provenance:
Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
Technique:
wood engraving, black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101460239 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
C05572
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101460239