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Hygieia

Goddess in Greek mythology, personification of health

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Images featuring Hygieia

23 images from works
  • A young woman as Hygieia (Health). Stipple engraving by C. Taylor, 1789, after S. Shelley.
  • Louis Pasteur, with two dogs (referring to his work on rabies), a palm and a snake around a bowl (indicating achievement in hygiene). Chromolithograph.
  • Bad Kreuth, Bavaria: the healing spring, and monument to King Maximilian I of Bavaria. Lithograph by F. Lacroix, 1828, after C. Heinzmann after J.-B. Métivier.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.
  • Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.
  • Hygieia. Oil painting, 18--.
  • An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
  • Hygieia as a personification of hygiene: a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background; advertising an exhibition in Düsseldorf on health and welfare. Colour lithograph after L. ten Hompel, 1926.
  • Aesculapius and Hygieia. Engraving by C.P.P. Carloni after T. Matteini.
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Works from the collections

28 works

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Snakes
Staff of Aesculapius
Health
Medicine
Anatomists
Surgical Instruments
Mythology
Human dissection
Roosters
Eagles