Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.

  • Gill, André, 1840-1885.
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1867
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12i
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Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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He holds a surgical knife, and is accompanied by eight cupids, possibly referring to the effects of inherited gonorrhea and syphilis studied by Ricord. The cupids on the left have an anxious expression, or are cast into darkness, or are rubbing their eyes (ophthalmia neonatorum, blenorrhagic ophthalmia). One on the right carries a crutch, while two others, free from disease, fly freely away

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1867

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1 print : wood engraving (?), with watercolour

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References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2492.5
The picture of health: images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection; commentaries by William H. Helfand; essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991, p. 88

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Wellcome Collection 12i

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