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Apprentices

Images

  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • A surgeon applying medicine to a wound in the shoulder of a man in pain. Oil painting by Gerrit Lundens, 1649.
  • A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
All images (87)

Catalogue

    • Books

    La formation par l'apprentissage : éléments de psychopédagogie / par Jacques Leplat ; Claude Énard ; Annie Weill-Fassina.

    Leplat, Jacques, 1921- | Date: 1970
    • Pictures

    A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.

    Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546. | Date: [1542?] | Reference: 23028i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Alexander the Great being mocked by the apprentices in the studio of Apelles. Etching by Salvator Rosa.

    Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 38761i
    • Books

    Climbing boys : a study of sweeps' apprentices, 1773-1875 / K.H. Strange.

    Strange, K. H. (Kathleen H.), 1904- | Date: 1982
    • Books

    Coventry apprentices and their masters, 1781-1806 / edited by Joan Lane.

    | Date: 1983
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