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Het Committè de Santè
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image: 25.3 x 20.8 cm; plate: 27.5 x 21.9 cm; sheet: 29.3 x 23.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2917
Published:
[1796]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed in upper left corner of image: 15.
Plate number 15 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Summary:
An old woman sits full-face surrounded by quack doctors. Her cap is inscribed 'Rep: Bat' (Batavian Republic), her petticoat is decorated with the seven [The artist has arranged the arrows in groups of five, not seven] arrows of the United Provinces. Her feet are in a tub of water. One doctor (left) holds her arm, the blood from which gushes into a bowl on her lap. Another (right) applies a cupping-glass to her left shoulder. A man (right) stands primly in profile to the left holding his cane; from his pocket protrudes a book: 'Traité sur la Reconaissance'. Two military officers also watch the treatment, one (left) has a clyster-pipe under his arm.
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