Visiting the sick
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Author(s):
- Tavernier, Jules, engraver
- Publication:
- [New York : Harper's], 1873
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Genre(s):
- Pictorial Works
- Abstract:
- Two well-dressed women offer alms and a basket of food to a sick woman who sits covered in a shawl in run-down quarters. A young child stands at a table and looks at the basket of food, while another child, also apparently sick, sits on the floor next to the chair in which the sick woman sits.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 photomechanical print : 41 x 28 cm.
- Provenance:
- Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
- Technique:
- wood engraving, black and white
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101460239 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- C05572
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101460239