Lazzaro and Giovanni Battista Colloredo, a man with an incomplete human body attached to his chest. Line engraving.
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The sitter was classed as two people because of the body protruding from his chest. The extra body was given a separate name, Giovanni Battista, and baptised because it was assumed that they had separate souls
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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 17.8 x 11.5 cm
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Lazarus Coloredo, a Genoese, aged 28. (see Gent. Mag. p.482.)
References note
Bridget Telfer et al., Reframing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians, London 2011, pp. 58-59, fig, 18
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Wellcome Collection 233i
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