Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Woman Searching for Fleas
Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672) · c. 1671
Considered mere nuisances for those living in close proximity to animals, fleas would only become known as carriers of such illnesses as the bubonic plague almost 200 years after this drawing was made.
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