1753
A Physician with an Enema Syringe
Pier Leone GhezziItalian, 1674 - 1755
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.
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