A Physician with an Enema Syringe
Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian, 1674 - 1755
Geography:
Made in Italy, Europe
Date:
1753Medium:
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper, with cream laid paper framing pieces, mounted downDimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/8 x 9 5/16 inches (36.5 x 23.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1978-62-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman (later SmithKline Beecham) Fund for the Ars Medica Collection, 1978
Made in Italy, Europe
Date:
1753Medium:
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper, with cream laid paper framing pieces, mounted downDimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/8 x 9 5/16 inches (36.5 x 23.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1978-62-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman (later SmithKline Beecham) Fund for the Ars Medica Collection, 1978
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disability [x] tool [x] vertically-challenged colonics enthusiast [x]Ghezzi was one of the most engaging figures of eighteenth-century Rome: a painter, theater designer, antiquarian, and dabbler in medicine, anatomy, and archaeology, as well as an accomplished musician. A prolific caricaturist, he left great numbers of humorous ink drawings of his contemporaries from all walks of life-aristocrats and artists, clerics and musicians, grand tourists and servants. The doctor here is identified in the inscription on the sheet as a nephew of one Dr. Romanelli and as practicing at a nearby abbey belonging to the Albani family.