A surgeon opening an abcess on the arm of a reclining man who is leaning on the lap of the surgeon's assistant. Colour stipple engraving by S. Mulinari, 1796, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

1796

1 print : stipple engraving, printed in sanguine

Guercino inv: e del. Mulinari incis: 1796.

R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 279, no, 3300, as after Guercino ("Ein Jüngling, von einem anderen unterstützt, wird von einem Alten am Arme operirt. Rothstein. S. Mulinari sc. H. 14" 3"', Br. 10" 5"' Scacciati, Disegni originali 100."). Weigel's identification of the series as Scacciati, Disegni originali, issued in 1766, is inconsistent with the date 1796 on the present engraving

Wellcome Collection 22539i