A man helps two people, one of them a surgeon, suffering from plague. Drawing, c. 1789, after P. Mignard.

  • Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.
Date:
c. 1789
Reference:
29089i
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The fainting surgeon holds a scalpel in one hand and a dish under the bleeding armpit of the woman. Lavater describes the heroic visage of the man who picks both of them up

Publication/Creation

[London], c. 1789.

Physical description

1 drawing : graphite

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Creator/production credits

Lavater mistakenly attributed the design to Poussin. Holloway editorially corrected it in the English edition

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29089i

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