Plague Doctor

Item

Title
Plague Doctor
Description
Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Date
Circa 1656
Creator
Paul Fürst (publisher, and perhaps also the engraver)
License
Public domain
Item sets
Pandemics exhibit