Depicts Jacobus de Forlivio (1364 - 1414), a doctor wearing a scholarly cap and robes, holding up a glass flask to examine the colour and sediment for medical diagnosis. This woodcut is excised from a single from a single page of the historic Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) published in 1493 by Hartmann Schedel with woodcuts produced by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleyenwurff. Text on verso.
Approx 6cms by 8cms.
