M0006841: 'Hippocrates' visit to Democritus at Abdera'

Previous title, replaced May 2020: 'Hippocrates' visit to Democritus at Abdera'

Photograph of an oil painting on canvas by Jacob Adriaensz Backer, depicting Hippocrates visiting Democritus at Abdera. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 21, La visite d'Hippocrate chez Democrite, a Abdera, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting was held by O. Garschagen, a Dutch private collector in Amsterdam.

1 May 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12.5 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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