Joannes Taylor Medicus, in Optica Expertissimus, Multisque in Academiis Celebermis Membrum.
Chevalier Ryche Roma Pinx. J. Faber Londini Fecit.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), large margins. Tear entering plate on right taped.
Portrait of John Taylor (1703-1772), self-proclaimed Ophthalmiater Royal to King George II, and surgeon-oculist to the Pope, the Emperor and a mythical Princess of Georgia. He was a coucher, or cataract surgeon, who performed removal of cataracts by breaking them up into pieces, although he often left town before his patients' bandages had been removed. Among his victims was Bach, who he reportedly blinded and who fell ill with fever and died less than four months later.
CS 342. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67536] £320.00
[n.d., c.1745.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), large margins. Tear entering plate on right taped.
Portrait of John Taylor (1703-1772), self-proclaimed Ophthalmiater Royal to King George II, and surgeon-oculist to the Pope, the Emperor and a mythical Princess of Georgia. He was a coucher, or cataract surgeon, who performed removal of cataracts by breaking them up into pieces, although he often left town before his patients' bandages had been removed. Among his victims was Bach, who he reportedly blinded and who fell ill with fever and died less than four months later.
CS 342. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67536] £320.00