The medical practitioner appearing as a mere human when he has succeeded in curing sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
- Panderen, Egbert van, 1581-1637?
- Date:
- [1609?]
- Reference:
- 23859i
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The man representing the medical practitioner holds a heart-shaped object in his left hand and tweezers in his right. On the left, in the background the convalescent old man sits in front of the fire with the physician; in the foreground, medical books. On the right, the man recovered from a head-wound gets out of bed and the surgeon's apprentice puts away the instruments; in the foreground, surgical instruments
Publication/Creation
[Antwerp?] : Hugo Allardt excud, [1609?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 29 x 36.9 cm
Lettering
<Greek> iatros pollōn antaxios allōn. <Roman> Iamq<que> machaonia magis et magis arte levatus ... Een mensch der menschen weerd, is eenen Medecijn!
Bears lettering: <Greek> iatros pollōn antaxios allōn. <Roman> Iamq<ue> machaonia magis et magis arte levatus / cum sedet ante focum, progrediturve tripes. / O homo. non frustra tantos subysse labores / nosces; quod restat tu modo tolle malum / Vnd wan der Patient nun auss dem siechbett kumpt / Vnd sitzet beÿ dem feuwr, oder im haus vmbgeht, / Dan sagt man lieber man, der kranck euch herlich rumbt / Kein mensch so wol als ihr, vnd treuwlich ihm beÿsthet. / Wir werden fragen bald, was wir euch sollen geben / Euwr ankunft war uns lieb, der gang wirt lieber sein, / Ihr habt in kurtzer zeÿt, sein kranckheit bald vertrieben, / Ein Mensch vol ehren werth, ist solchen Medicein. / Wanner de crancke nu, wat van den bedde comet / En sitte bÿ het vijer, of achter huijse ghaet; / Dan is het; weerde man, den crancken maer voortvromet; / Geen mensche als ghij, doet, de mensche soo bÿstaet: / Wij sullen vraghen haest, wat wij v sullen gheven? / V comste was ons lief, v gangh sal weerder sijn: / Ghij hebt in corten tijt, de sieckte schier verdreven / Een mensch der menschen weerd, is eenen Medecijn!
Bears number: 3
References note
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts, vol. VII, Amsterdam [19--], p. 97, nos 7-10 (set of four)
Notes
One print in a set of four. Four other sets on the same subject are also recorded: see C.E. Daniels, "Docteurs et malades", Janus, vol. 5, 1900, pp. 20-26
Reference
Wellcome Collection 23859i
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