A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving by M. Haffner, 1678.

  • Freitag, Johann, the Younger, 1587-1654.
Date:
1678
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588754i
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Description

Below, a woman suffering from melancholia hypochondriaca lies on the ground: a devil insufflates bellows into her ear, insects fly around her, and a physician (?), possibly Freitag, gives her a kick with his foot

Publication/Creation

Augspurg [Augsburg] : [in Verlegung Gottlieb Göbels], 1678.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 12 x 6.7 cm

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Wellcome Collection 588754i

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