1710 Joh. Meyer, Broadside dedicated to Medicine, ‘Die Heil Kunst’

Johannes Meyer (1655–1712)

Medicina : = Die Heil Kunst

[Zürich] : [Stadtbibliothek Zürich], [1692] 

Broadside issued on New Year’s Days 1692.

Engraved area trimmed and mount on contemporary paper (as almost always).

Overall size: 27.5 x 31.5 cm

Reference: Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, Bd. XXVIII, Amsterdam 1980, S. 40, Nr. 136-157

Allegorical figure of medicine, in the background the Holy Spirit Hospital in Zurich. On the left and right two allegorical representations "Physiologia, Pathologia, Hygieine, Therapeutice"

Extremely rare.