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    Image number: RS.10126
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    Portrait of Ambroise Paré

    Date
    1582
    Sitter
    Ambroise Pare (1505 - 1590, French) , Barber-surgeon
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X306/2
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 230mm
    width (print): 162mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Ambroise Paré, half facing to the right as viewed, wearing a doublet and ruff collar.

    Frontispiece from Discours d'Ambroise Pare ... a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f.23. Inscribed upper left “ANNO AETATIS. 72 1582 S.F.”

    Ambroise Paré (c.1510-1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served several Kings of France.
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