A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.

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A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The print is full of sexual inuendoes: the bare breasted female patient, the physician's trousers are gaping at the crotch and the old woman is passing the syringe in a suggestive manner

Publication/Creation

G. Valck excud cum previl,

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 34.6 x 29 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/138/77

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J. Steen pinxit. A. De Blois fecit.

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Wellcome Collection 21759i

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