Image: Johann Melchior Füssli (1677–1736), Sketch of a Cordovan-leather-clad doctor of Marseilles
Description: The legend at the bottom of the engraving has been translated thus: "Sketch of a doctor of Marseilles clad in cordovan leather equipped with a nose-case packed with plague-repelling smoking material. With the wand he is to feel the pulse." (Fletcher, p. 16)
Title: Johann Melchior Füssli (1677–1736), Sketch of a Cordovan-leather-clad doctor of Marseilles
Credit: Robert Fletcher, "A tragedy of the Great Plague of Milan in 1630" (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1898), fig. 3 (following p. 16). <http://www.archive.org/details/atragedygreatpl00fletgoog>
Author: Johann Melchior Füssli (1677–1736; englished by Fletcher as John Melchior Fuesslin. The laterally reversed text identifying the artist immediately below the image of the doctor appears to read ‘Johann Melchior Fuesslinus del[ineavit] et sc[ulpsit]’)
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