Dona Mercedes Velasco's recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854.

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1854
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44910i
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Dona Mercedes Velasco's recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mercedes Velasco sits on the right, bleeding from the nose. Centre, the physician, with a resigned expression, his arms folded to show he can do no more; his top hat is on a chair behind him. Far right, a woman holds an empty glass of his failed medicine towards him in reproach. Far left, placed above an altar, Christ on the Cross, to whom Señora Velasco promised this votive offering in thanks for the prayed-for cessation of the bleeding

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1854.

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1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 39.5 x 28 cm

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Estando Da Mercedes Velasco con una emorragia por la nariz sin hallar medio de contenerla, se encomendó de corazon á N.P.S. <Nuestro Padre Señor> de los Desamparados y sanó. Año de 1854

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Wellcome Collection 44910i

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