A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1660?]

1 print : line engraving ; image 14 x 18.8 cm

Och Aap gy loopt gevaar men moet uw fluks clisteeren/ La moode de Franse un boeuljon zoo kan u smert verkeeren

Wellcome Collection 17509i

Parody of a painting by Jan Steen, which was known through a mezzotint by A. de Blois (Wellcome Library no. 21759i). In the Steen version, the patient is a woman and the small monkey holding the pot is a dog sitting beside a pot