Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.

Previous title, replaced October 2023 : Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving by P. Fürst, c. 1650.

[Nuremberg] : Paulus Fürst excud

1 print : line engraving

Künstliche Winnd-müll. Auff welche mann die Alten: Sowol auch sonsten hesslich unnd ungestalten Weibe widerumbgank, schön und saube durchmallen ... Next two words of lettering indistinct: "Beitel kan"? Engraved lettering continues at length below image

Carole Reeves (ed.), A cultural history of the human body: in the age of enlightenment, Oxford: Berg, 2010, p. 117

Wellcome Collection 26373i

Exhibited in ‘The Cult of Beauty’ at Wellcome Collection, London, 26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024