A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.

  • Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.
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A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The patient looks away and utters a groan of pain as a plaster, or possibly a piece of skin, is lifted away from a wound in his hand, and a third man steadies the patient's shoulders

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1 painting : oil on copper ; copper 16.5 x 20.8 cm

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Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 408

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Wellcome Collection 44987i

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