Engraving of a kneeling woman with a written sheet, a plumed helmeted woman, and an armored man beside a tent, with a distant town in the landscape.

Allegory of Surgery, engraving by Charles-Nicholas Cochin

An engraving showing a kneeling woman in flowing drapery who holds an open sheet of writing beside a helmeted, plumed female figure, while a man in armor stands before a tent at right. A hilly landscape with a distant town and trees fills the background.

Artist: Charles-Nicholas Cochin, the younger
Date: 1741
Medium: Etching and engraving on buff laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2213 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1741).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

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