Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

  • Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.
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1699
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17898i
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1699

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1 print : etching ; platemark 21.7 x 31.3 cm

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Sangue de poveri cavato per mano degli arabi moderni. Mitelli inv e fece. 1699 ... Lettering continues: Sotto questa inhumana cerusia/ L'afflitta povertà languisce e suiene,/ Volendo i Professor d'Arte siria/ D'altrui sangue arrichir le proprie uene

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Wellcome Collection 17898i

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