A medical practitioner examining the throat of a nervous woman via the anus. Cut paper silhouette by Elkan.

[between 1900 and 1999?]

1 cut work : silhouette, black paper on white ; image and lettering 15 x 24.5 cm

Moyen détourné pour examinér la gorge d'une femme nerveuse. Original silhouette ... She says "Ah,Ah, Ah!", he says "faites sh!" Translation of lettering: Circuitous method of examining the throat of a nervous woman

Signature of artist in lower right corner, undeciphered, possibly A. Elkan or O. Elkan. A silhouette artist identified as O. Elkan is listed as the author of a series of caricature drawings (?) of a tooth extraction in the National Library of Medicine, Washington D.C.

Wellcome Collection 30983i