The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal the sick. Photograph after Hendrick Goltzius, 1587.

  • Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.
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The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal the sick. Photograph after Hendrick Goltzius, 1587. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 photograph : photoprint ; image 15.9 x 19.5 cm

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Hē tou theou cheir. Paulum ubi convaluit; paulum de numine nostro / cessit, et in nostris auribus ista sonant: / tu cœlo nobis demissus es angelus alto, / præmia quæ vestri et quanta laboris er[unt] ; H. Goltz. escud. Bears number: 2 Greek lettering in upper-case, centre of bottom margin; two couplets in Latin, one on each side of the Greek

Notes

One of a series of four allegorical prints depicting the physician as God, angel, man and devil. Four other series on the same subject are also recorded: see C.E. Daniels, "Docteurs et malades", Janus, vol. 5, 1900, pp. 20-26

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)

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Wellcome Collection 566164i

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