The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.

  • Ribera, Jusepe de, 1591-1652.
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[1622?]
Reference:
12034i
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The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

According to Brown (p.72) the print shows "a benign tumor called Von Recklinhausen [sic] Disease (multiple neurofibromata)". However, F. Merke, Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus, Bern 1971, p. 330, diagnoses goitre (goiter), which is the diagnosis adopted in this catalogue record

Publication/Creation

[1622?]

Physical description

1 print : etching

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Lettering

JsRa <monogram> hispanus

Edition

First state of two.

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 20, no. 9
Jonathan Brown, Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings, Princeton 1973, no. 11 ("Large grotesque head")

Notes

Title devised by cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 12034i

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