Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
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Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli · 1699

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Lettering: Sangue de poveri cavato per mano degli arabi moderni. Mitelli inv e fece. 1699 ...

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