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A Surgeon Performing a Head Operation

Drawing
1683 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Carolus Van Deijnum, Joannes (artist)
Place of origin
Brussels (drawn)

Drawing, 'A Surgeon Performing a Head Operation', 1 of 24 emblems painted for the Jesuit College of Brussels, by Joannes Carolus van Deijnum, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, with watercolour, dated 1683


Object details

Object type
Drawing
TitleA Surgeon Performing a Head Operation (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour
Pen
Brown Ink
Watercolour
Paper
Brief description
Drawing, 'A Surgeon Performing a Head Operation', 1 of 24 emblems painted for the Jesuit College of Brussels, by Joannes Carolus van Deijnum, Flemish School, pen and brown ink, with watercolour, dated 1683
Dimensions
  • Full sheet height: 279/258mm
  • Full sheet width: 190/177mm
  • Oval design height: 146mm
  • Oval design width: 126mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Blind stylus lines for the inscription at the top, in graphite, PIETAS / QUAM ODIOSA IMPIIS / TAM IIS AD SALUTEM NECES- / SARIA (‘Piety is as much hated by the impious as it is necessary for their salvation’). Inscribed below in brown ink, – laesis odiosa medela in rugas quid vultus abit, quid contrahis ora? / læsus es, et læso dura ferenda scias :/ desperata salus sine me; quamquam aspera credar / duraque, sola tua sum medicina malo. Επιφριττεται μη ιωντα, / Και τραυμασι διδοντα / Σωτηριαν βεβαιαν. vincent[ius] franc[iscus] kgnopff brux[ellensis] rhetor in (The final line—gymnasio Societatis Jesu. Bruxellis 1683—present in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS. 20.327—is missing, as the sheet has been trimmed at the bottom.)
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s inv. no.), 9280.4. Inscribed on verso, at upper centre, in brown ink, No 58e. Inscribed at bottom of mount, in graphite, Surgeon.
Object history
Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased (as a ‘Series of 24 pen drawings representing trades etc.’ as by P. Baut [in cover]) by the museum, 22 July 1884 for £1. 10s. 0d.
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 468.4, illus. p.388.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
9280:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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