
Doctor and patient, reign of Charles VIII, 1493.
Doctor with flask of medicine and sickly patient, reign of Charles VIII, 1493. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after a contemporary manuscript from the Pauquet Brothers' Modes et Costumes Historiques (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history.
Credit
Science Museum London
Dimensions
4436 x 6411 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
15 x 21 inches / 38 x 54 cm