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Eczema
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A photographer could illustrate a scientific subject more rapidly and precisely than a draughtsman. There was one drawback, however, colour photography did not yet exist then. The physician Arthur de Montméja took photographs for a compendium of skin diseases, and oversaw the hand-colouring of them. And so old-fashioned handiwork nevertheless found a way in through a back door.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineEczeem. c. 1868. Alfred Hardy. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
