Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

1699

1 print : etching ; platemark 21.7 x 31.3 cm

Sangue de poveri cavato per mano degli arabi moderni. Mitelli inv e fece. 1699 ... Lettering continues: Sotto questa inhumana cerusia/ L'afflitta povertà languisce e suiene,/ Volendo i Professor d'Arte siria/ D'altrui sangue arrichir le proprie uene

Wellcome Collection 17898i