Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Coloured engraving.

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4824i
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Saint Elizabeth is shown as a princess and a saint presenting a coin to a young man using crutches as he has lost his left foot (from leprosy?)

Publication/Creation

In Hohenelbe [Vrchlabí, Bohemia] : Bei Wenzel Lanhammer [i.e. Langhammer]

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1 print : engraving, with gouache ; platemark 20.4 x 16 cm

Lettering

S. Elisabetha

References note

Lesley Hall, Hygieia's handmaids: women, health and healing, London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1988, p. 25

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Wellcome Collection 4824i

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