Committee of Health, 1795, Il Comitato della Sanita (title on object), Hollandia Regenerata (Italian copy) (series title), Cartoon on the (non-existent) Committee of Health, 1795. A group of Dutch and French quacks around the Dutch Virgin of the Batavian Republic, depicted as an old ugly woman with bare breasts. One of the charlatans has opened her vein and blood is squirting into a saucer in her lap. The standing citizen on the right is probably the surgeon Willem Leurs who wrote a treatise on bloodletting., print, print maker: anonymous, after print by: James Gillray, (possibly), after drawing by: David Hess, (mentioned on object), Venice, 1799, paper, etching, engraving, height, 270 mm × width, 220 mm
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Committee, Health, 1795, Il Comitato della Sanita, title, object, Hollandia Regenerata, Italian copy, series title, Cartoon, non-existent, group, Dutch, French quacks, Dutch Virgin, Batavian Republic, depicted, old ugly woman, bare breasts, charlatans, opened, vein, blood, squirting, saucer, lap, standing citizen, right, surgeon Willem Leurs, wrote, treatise, bloodletting, print, print maker, anonymous, James Gillray, drawing, David Hess, mentioned, Venice, 1799, paper, etching, engraving, height, 270 mm × width, 220 mm
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