Haarlem, Goltzius, Hendrick, The medical profession, The doctor as angel, mo two three-line drawings, In a house a man lies sick in bed, family members caring around him. A doctor sits talking next to his bed. In the room to the right you can see what has happened to the man since his fall (see the first print in the series): his head is bandaged and his leg is splinted. In the foreground an angel, standing amidst a book and medical instruments. Below the image engraved Latin and Greek texts and (outside the plate edge but on the same sheet) a printed Dutch text, explaining that the doctor is seen as an angel if he has given first aid to the sick person. 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 bottom left - stamped, HGoltz excud., bottom left, 2, Paulum vbi conualuit...laboris erunt, mo twee tweelijnen, Als nu pijn, ende noot, ...t'Lichaems ghesonde, height 188 mm, width 228 mm, height 212 mm, width 240 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, print maker, printmaker, 1587 - 1587, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, Work conception, Northern Netherlands, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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