Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.

Date:
1600-1699
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26373i
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Previous title, replaced October 2023 : Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving by P. Fürst, c. 1650.

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[Nuremberg] : Paulus Fürst excud

Physical description

1 print : line engraving

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Künstliche Winnd-müll. Auff welche mann die Alten: Sowol auch sonsten hesslich unnd ungestalten Weibe widerumbgank, schön und saube durchmallen ... Next two words of lettering indistinct: "Beitel kan"? Engraved lettering continues at length below image

References note

Carole Reeves (ed.), A cultural history of the human body: in the age of enlightenment, Oxford: Berg, 2010, p. 117

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26373i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in ‘The Cult of Beauty’ at Wellcome Collection, London, 26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024

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