The satirical broadside of the beaked plague doctor of Rome, the source of the image most people know.
Shaped: Cut XVI, Plague Doctor: Et in Arcadia Ego.
Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.
Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom (Nuremberg: Paul Fürst, c. 1656 (engraving)), the work of Paul Fürst and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.
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Fürst, Paul.
Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom.
Nuremberg: Paul Fürst, c. 1656 (engraving).
Wikimedia Commons (public domain),
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_F%C3%BCrst,_Der_Doctor_Schnabel_von_Rom_(Holl%C3%A4nder_version).png.


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