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A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. The couple appear to be French country people dressed up for the visit. The savant wears a yellow silk (?) banyan with a pattern of pink roses. On the floor to his right are two flasks containing foetuses. On a shelf above are glass vessels containing various liquids. The suggestion is that the couple are asking whether their marriage would be propitious, or, if already married, when they would have children.
Creator
- Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret
- Édouard Pingret
Subject
- Fortune telling
Creator
- Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret
- Édouard Pingret
Subject
- Fortune telling
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Wellcome Collection
Source
- L0040406
Identifier
- L0040406
- b1646212
- Iconographic Collection 646212i
- yufjtd37
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:36:40.641Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:36:40.641Z