A surgeon performing an amputation of the leg in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?).
- Date:
- [between 1800 and 1899?]
- Reference:
- 35179i
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The people are wearing early 17th-century costume. The patient is lying down, as in surgery of the anaesthetic era (post-1846), showing that this is a late 19th-century idea of what a surgical operation might have been like in the early 17th century. The man on the left is in the position adopted later by anaesthetists
Publication/Creation
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 63 x 76 cm
Reference
Wellcome Collection 35179i
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Location Status Access Closed storesNote