A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.

  • Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
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1827
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652845i
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A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the foreground, a boy (a surgeon's apprentice?) holds a glass box of leeches

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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], 1827 ([Paris] : I[mp.] Lith. de Delpech)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 34.7 x 25.7 cm

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Les sangsues. L. Boilly 1827

Notes

'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de Grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 copies were published of the first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London.--Judith Wechsler, A human comedy', London 1982, p. 194

References note

Henry Harrisse, L.L. Boilly, Paris: Société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, p. 196ff.
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, p. 58, Louis Boilly no. 9 ("9. Même suite [Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl.] … No. 85, Les sangsues, 1827 [H. 1342, avec le no. 85; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 101.")

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