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Colored engraving: bearded old man with a boy and nude youth, kneeling woman in white, snake altar and statue.

Flore Medicale: elderly man with family before a snake altar

A hand-colored engraving in a circular frame shows a bearded elderly man in draped robes, accompanied by a young boy and a nude youth, beside a kneeling woman in white. A snake-entwined altar and a classical statue on a pedestal stand at left, under printed text reading Flore Medicale.

Artist
Lenormand, Pierre-Jules-Augustin.
Date
[1830?]
Medium
Frontispieces Engravings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3742 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1840.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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