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In a garden, men with wens look through magnifying glasses at round flowers. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1823. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The album in which the print appears has text explaining this strange scene: the three men are afflicted with wens ('loupes') and the surrounding images establish correspondances and puns with these excrescences. The writer explains how a botanical garden is the ideal place to observe analogies to the wen in nature; it is here that 'tubercolic nature flourishes with all its variety and caprices'. These three men are naturalists who are looking through magnifying-glasses (in French, also 'loupes') at round, wen-like flowers. A man carries 'one of those culinary wens that have come to be called melons'. A child holds a bulging puppet and plays with a ball
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