The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.

  • Ribera, Jusepe de, 1591-1652.
Date:
[1622?]
Reference:
12034i
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Description

According to Brown (p.72) the print shows "a benign tumor called Von Recklinhausen [sic] Disease (multiple neurofibromata)". However, F. Merke, Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus, Bern 1971, p. 330, diagnoses goitre (goiter), which is the diagnosis adopted in this catalogue record

Publication/Creation

[1622?]

Physical description

1 print : etching

Lettering

JsRa <monogram> hispanus

Edition

First state of two.

Notes

Title devised by cataloguer.

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 20, no. 9
Jonathan Brown, Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings, Princeton 1973, no. 11 ("Large grotesque head")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 12034i

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