Visual Materials
Manuel des Dames de Charité
- Description
- The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
- Date
- appoximately 1750
- Call number
- priHEL
- Provenance
- Gift of William H. Helfand, 2012. This collection was donated to the Huntington Library by William H. Helfand between December 2012 and September 2013.
