A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him; two erotes depicted on the shoulder of the vessel. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, ca. 1937.

Previous title, replaced June 2023 : A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him. Gouache painting.

1937

1 painting : gouache ; image 14 x 24.3 cm

A Greek surgery of the fifth century B.C. ... Lettering contines: "In the centre is seated a surgeon, bleeding a patient; right and left are two more patients, bandaged, waiting their turn; on the extreme right and left are two further patients, the latter being shown in by a dwarf. From a painting on an Attic vase (480-460 B.C.) in the Louvre."

Jess Bailey, 'Exhibiting health and difference at Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum', Kritische Berichte, 2020, 48 (4): 30-43 (pp. 37-38)

Wellcome Collection 21250i

After a painting on a Greek aryballos, ca. 480-460 B.C., acquired in 1914 by the Musée du Louvre (inventory nos. CA 1989 and CA 2183)