A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; a portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving, 1644.

  • Freitag, Johann, the Younger, 1587-1654.
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1644
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567596i
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A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; a portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving, 1644. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Below, a woman suffering from melancholia hypochondriaca lies on the ground: a devil insufflates bellows into her ear, insects fly around her, and a physician (?), possibly Freitag, gives her a kick with his foot

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Franckfurt am Mayn : [in Verlegung Johann David Zunners], 1644.

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1 print : engraving ; image 14 x 7.8 cm

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Wellcome Collection 567596i

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