Sallot (?) holding up a tooth and leaning on a grossly oversized set of dentures through which a fleur-de-lis is growing, in the background is a oversized skull wearing a helmet. Coloured wood engraving (?) by Marchandeux after A. Gill, 1867.

  • Gill, André, 1840-1885.
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4 Août 1867
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16745i
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Sallot (?) holding up a tooth and leaning on a grossly oversized set of dentures through which a fleur-de-lis is growing, in the background is a oversized skull wearing a helmet. Coloured wood engraving (?) by Marchandeux after A. Gill, 1867. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris (Bureaux, 5, Cite Bergere) : La Lune, 4 Août 1867.

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1 print : wood engraving (?), with watercolour

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La Lune. ... Portrait authentique de Sallot dit casque de fer. D'apres une photographie communiquée par M. Francal, notre correspondant à Foix. And. Gill. Relief Marchandeux. The top of the newspaper contains several pieces of text

References note

Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome neuvième, Paris 1955, p. 115, André Gill, no. 11 ('11. Dessins dans la Lune, année 1867 : … Sallot, dit Casque de Fer …')

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Wellcome Collection 16745i

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