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Auction archive: Lot number 283

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$16,325
Auction archive: Lot number 283

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$16,325
Beschreibung:

Brödel, Max, illustrator Photogravure inscribed ("Wm. Osler"), being a photomechanical reproduction Max Brödel's iconic drawing, "The Saint - John's Hopkin's Hospital," 210 x 126 mm, mounted on board, inscribed by Osler to mount beneath illustration, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler," discoloration to mount, matted. An extremely rare inscribed copy of Max Brödel's iconic and imaginative image of a winged Osler floating above the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The inscription reads, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler." Max Brödel was America's leading medical illustrator during the first four decades of the twentieth century. See Crosby and Cody, Max Brödel: The man who put art into medicine, (New York, 1991), pp 330-331 for a discussion of this image. For Thomas Cullen's 1949 essay on the image (and a reproduction of it) see Golden and Roland, Sir William Osler: An Annotated Bibliography, (1988), pp 178-181.

Auction archive: Lot number 283
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Brödel, Max, illustrator Photogravure inscribed ("Wm. Osler"), being a photomechanical reproduction Max Brödel's iconic drawing, "The Saint - John's Hopkin's Hospital," 210 x 126 mm, mounted on board, inscribed by Osler to mount beneath illustration, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler," discoloration to mount, matted. An extremely rare inscribed copy of Max Brödel's iconic and imaginative image of a winged Osler floating above the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The inscription reads, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler." Max Brödel was America's leading medical illustrator during the first four decades of the twentieth century. See Crosby and Cody, Max Brödel: The man who put art into medicine, (New York, 1991), pp 330-331 for a discussion of this image. For Thomas Cullen's 1949 essay on the image (and a reproduction of it) see Golden and Roland, Sir William Osler: An Annotated Bibliography, (1988), pp 178-181.

Auction archive: Lot number 283
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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