Portrait of Samuel Garth, Portrait of the English doctor and poet Samuel Garth. Below the portrait an image in which Garth is at work, surrounded by the snake-wrapped staff of Asclepius as a symbol for medicine and a winch as a symbol for poetry, Aesculapian sign, lyre, cithara, psaltery, symbolic representations, allegories and emblems, lyric poetry, 'Puma lirico' (Ripa), Samuel Garth, Jacob Houbraken (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1748, paper, pen, h 356 mm × w 223 mm

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Portrait of Samuel Garth, Portrait of the English doctor and poet Samuel Garth. Below the portrait an image in which Garth is at work, surrounded by the snake-wrapped staff of Asclepius as a symbol for medicine and a winch as a symbol for poetry, Aesculapian sign, lyre, cithara, psaltery, symbolic representations, allegories and emblems, lyric poetry, 'Puma lirico' (Ripa), Samuel Garth, Jacob Houbraken (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1748, paper, pen, h 356 mm × w 223 mm

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