Identification title(s): committee of health, 1795. Il comitato della sanita (title on object). Hollandia regenerata (italian dub) (series title). La rigenerazione dell'olanda: spechio a tutti i popoli rigenerati (series title on object). Object type: print cartoon serial number: 15/20object number: bi-b-fm-097-15. Catalog reference: fmh 5431-b/15. Description: cartoon on the (non-existent) committee of health, 1795. A group of dutch and french quacks surrounding the dutch virgin of the batavian republic, depicted as an old ugly woman with bare breasts. One of the charlatans has opened her vein and blood is squirting into a saucer in her lap. The standing citizen on the right is probably the surgeon willem leurs who wrote a treatise on bloodletting. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: anonymous, after a drawing by: david hess, after a print by: james gillray (possibly), publisher: giovanni zatta di antonio. Place of manufacture: venice. Date: 1799. Physical features: etching and engraving, printed in red. Material: paper technique: etching / engraving (printing process) / color printing. Dimensions: plate edge: h 272 mm × w 220 mm explanation title page for the series of twenty cartoons published in book form on the provisional representatives of the people of holland and the batavian republic in general in the year 1795. Copies made and published in venice in 1799. Each print is followed by a text sheet with an explanation in french and the translation in italian followed by a comment by the translator. After the original series with the series title 'hollandia regenerata' with 20 prints probably etched by james gillray and probably published in london by william humphrey in 1795. Subject: what: bleeding, blood-letting, e. G. : with the aid of cupping-glasses, batavian revolution. When: 1795. Who: willem leurs. Acquisition: purchase 1881. Date: 1799.
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