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Triptic of Horace Well's life
Image Not Available for Triptic of Horace Well's life

Triptic of Horace Well's life

Date1906
MediumPrint on paper
DimensionsFrame (Height x Width): 16 5/16 x 27 3/4 x 3/4in. (41.4 x 70.5 x 1.9cm)
Credit LineGift of Hartford Medical Society
DescriptionReduced reproduction of the triptic painted for Dr. Luis Subirana of Madrid by the famous artist Cecilio Pla on the life of the glorious discoverer of the anestesia. First painting is of Wells in a lecture hall; the second is of Wells dead in the bathtub; and the third is of Wells outside a columned building with onlookers laughing att him.
Object number2009.410.16
InscribedTo the Horace Wells Society
Prof. Subirana
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