Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: physicians and surgeons treating the sick. Watercolour, 19--, after Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.

  • Domenico, di Bartolo, approximately 1400-approximately 1445.
Date:
[approximately 1912]
Reference:
44648i
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Description

Left, two physicians discussing a prognosis from urine, and a sick man being placed on a mattress. Foreground, a surgeon treating a leg wound (or letting blood from the foot?)

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1912]

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour on primed cotton ; sight 94.7 x 69.8 cm

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Lettering

Bears printed label affixed to recto from exhibition of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in Wigmore Street (1913-1930): "Monk physicians washing and attending to patients in the monastic hospital at Sienna. From a fresco of the XV. century in the hospital."

References note

Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organised by Henry S. Wellcome, London 1913, p. 61, no. 264

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44648i

Reproduction note

After: an albumen print by Fotografia Lombardi Siena of the left half of a fresco in the Pellegrinaio or Pilgrims' Hall of the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena

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