Folio 216

A patient’s face, painted like a portrait.

Work: from Ophthalmodouleia, das ist Augendienst
Maker: Georg Bartisch
Date: 1583
Held by: Published Dresden, 1583 · Wellcome Collection

Ophthalmodouleia · 1583

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

From the same Dresden book of 1583, Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia. Folio 216 recto shows a man's face at nearly life scale, red-bearded, with the treatment of a diseased eye drawn on it; the Wellcome Collection's note reads it as an eye infection, with a question mark. The running head above, und wilden Fleisch der Augen, names the subject in the German of the text. Bartisch wrote for barber-surgeons and oculists working without universities behind them, and he wrote in their language. The colour is original to the copy.

See it on your wall

The plate, in the room it was made for

Folio 216, printed large and framed — in the consulting room, the study, the library. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from Ophthalmodouleia, das ist Augendienst — Georg Bartisch, 1583 — from the copy held by Published Dresden, 1583 · Wellcome Collection. The source. The work is centuries out of copyright and in the public domain.
Printed faithful to that source scan. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the plate you receive is the plate as it survives.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed editions sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the engraver’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days.
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the engraver’s hand is visible — the linework, the tonal work, the lettering — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

From the same hand