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Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler. – Vintage Wall Art

Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler., [ca. 1850] — antique engraving
Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler., [ca. 1850]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg bei P.C. Geissler.

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Few portraits from the 1850s display their remedies as openly as this one, which presents a woman whose clothing itself is meant to guard against cholera. The print was issued in Nuremberg by P.C. Geissler and credited to M.G. Saphir, and it dates to about 1850, when Europe had already endured several cholera epidemics since 1830. Popular belief in protective garments, charms, and tonics was widespread then, and the colored engraving may be read both as a record of that medical fashion and as a wry comment on how fear of disease shaped everyday dress.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 print : engraving, color.
GenreEngravings Color 1850.
SubjectsPreventive medicine--1850. Cholera--1850. Women--Clothing & dress--1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179615

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