French Military Medical Corps. Chief Medical Officer Desgenettes. c1810

by d'Haudricourt, Ternisien

Antique print of army medical treatment in Syria. Desgenettes, Medecin en Chef de l'Armee de l'Egypte (Desgenettes, Chief Medical Officer of the French Army in Egypt).

Original copperplate engraving by Louis LaFitte for Les Fastes de la Nation Francaise (Annals of the French Nation) by Monsieur Ternisien d'Haudricourt. Published in Paris circa 1810 (later fine hand-tinting with watercolour).

This finely engraved page has the French text below the engraving. Size of engraving is 4 x 5.5 inches (10 x 14 cm). Size of full page is 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20 cm).