The Mesmeric Aura: mesmeric treatment illustration, 1887

A halftone photograph in a printed book shows a bearded man in a dark suit standing behind a seated younger man in a light military-style jacket, his hands raised near the sitter's head. The seated man sits in a fringed upholstered chair before a patterned backdrop; the printed caption reads 'The Mesmeric Aura.'

Artist

Younger, D.

Date

[1887]

Medium

Source

Wellcome Collection

Size

2494 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection