Joâo Curvo Semmedo. Line engraving by M. Dossier, 1716.

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1716
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8494i
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Joâo Curvo Semmedo. Line engraving by M. Dossier, 1716. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A Paris (rue des Lombards à la Chaise Royalle)

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Joâo Curvo Semmedo Cavalleyro professo da Ordem de Christo, Familiardo S. Officio, & medico da caza real, natural de Monforte, nascido em oprimeiro de Dezembro mil seiscentos, & trinta, & cinco Deidade deoitenta, & hu(m?) annos. Ad Curvi effigiem pavet horrida Mortis imago, Semmedo morbi pellit ab orbe metum. Ille dies hominum longos protendit in annos, Hinc Curvi nomen curva senecta tenet. M. Dossier sculp. 1716.

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1951, p. 300, no. 14 ("'Joâo Curvo Semmedo Cavalleyro professo da Ordem de Christo [etc.]'. Buste tourné à dr. Bordure ovale ornée de palmes et fixée à un fût de colonne, sur fond rectangulaire. Cartouche aux armes. Sur le socle, à g. : "M. Dossier sculp. 1716". Sur la tablette, 4 vers latins : "Ad Curvi effigiem pavet horrida Mortis Imago [etc.]" puis l'adresse : "à Paris rue des Lombards à la Chaise Royalle". H. 0m276xL. 0m178")
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2695.1

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