Wolfgang Gschaidtter, a carpenter at Innsbruck, paralyzed for fifteen years, with deformed feet and hands. Line engraving by A. Spängler, 1620.

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1620
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5404i
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Wolfgang Gschaidtter, a carpenter at Innsbruck, paralyzed for fifteen years, with deformed feet and hands. Line engraving by A. Spängler, 1620. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Insprugg [Innsbruck] : Daniel Bawr, 1620.

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1 print : line engraving, with inking ; platemark 36.2 x 29.2 cm

Lettering

Symbolum oenipontanum, Insprugger Warzaichen. Das ist der kranck oder krumme Tischler zu Inssprugg welcher uber das fuenffzehendt Jahr in unerhoerter Schwachhait ligt und noch allhie lebendig zusehen ist Lettering continues: Der kranckh oder krumbe Tischler su Insprugg. 1620. Andreas Spaengler sculps. Aspectas sanam malesano in corpore mentem / sicut pes curuus, sic quoque curua manus. / An magicas artes, incantamentaque passus, / nescit, naturae sit vitiumue suae. / Scit tamen affixum se per tria lustra grabato, / atque Machaonias nil potuisse manus. / Si nunquam viuum vidisti, cerne, cadauer; / iste quod est viuus, mortuus illud eris. [...] Gedruckt zu Inssprugg bey Daniel Bawr im Jahr 1620.

References note

Volker Schönwiese and Christian Mürner, 'Wolffgang Gschaidtter – Innsbrucker Wahrzeichen', in Petra Flieger and Volker Schönwiese (editors), Das Bildnis eines behinderten Mannes. Bildkultur der Behinderung vom 16. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert, Neu-Ulm: Ag Spak, 2007, pp. 43-64
Symbolum Oenipontanum, in: Noscemus Wiki, http://wiki.uibk.ac.at/noscemus/Symbolum_Oenipontanum

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Wellcome Collection 5404i

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