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Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler after himself.
Wellcome Collection

Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler after himself.

Johann David Nessenthaler

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Lettering: Phlegmaticus. Cui fortuna favet prœdam petitam habet,/ Mercator improbus divitias quœrit in undis ...

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