A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.

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[c. 1840]
Reference:
16496i
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A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1. A maid attends a dying man while three physicians languidly discuss the case; Death, clothed as a physician, waits to the right. 2. A boy soldier by a drum salutes an elaborately dressed soldier; other soldiers either sit or flirt with a woman. 3. In an artists' loft, dandies admire a painting, behind which hides a nude artists' model; to the left a boy draws and pulls off a gentleman's wig

Publication/Creation

Paris : Martinet, [c. 1840] (Litho. de A. Cornillon)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Lettering

La Consultation. L'entrée dans le monde. L'atelier de l'artiste.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16496i

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