Credit: © The Royal Society
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
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.
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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