Haarlem, Goltzius, Hendrick, The four forms of the physician, The medical profession, The physician as god, mo twice three-line, In a house a man lies sick in bed, family members distraught and praying around him. A doctor feels his pulse. In the room to the right and through the window one can see what happened to the man: he injured his head and leg in a fall from a ladder. In the foreground a Christ-like figure, standing amidst medical textbooks and instruments. Below the image engraved Latin and Greek texts and (outside the plate edge but on the same page) a printed Dutch text, explaining that the physician is welcomed as a god when someone's life hangs by a thread. This print is part of a series of four prints depicting how the doctor is regarded and valued during his visit to a sick person: upon arrival as a god, after first aid as an angel, upon healing as a human being and when payment has to be made as a devil., print, prints, verso lower left - stamped, HGoltzius excud., lower left, Ao. 87., l, o, 1, bottom left, Dum nigris egrum...me venerata DEVM, mo twice two lines, Daer den Cranken is in ... t'goet al gheuen., height 188 mm, width 231 mm, height 214 mm, width 237 mm, Northern Dutch, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, print maker, printmaker, 1587 - 1587, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, book printing, Work conception, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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