Description: Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem (‘Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel, / quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel’) in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
I. Columbina, ad vivum delineavit. Paulus Fürst Excud〈i〉t.
after 1656 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1656-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1656-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
1. Johannes Ebert and others, <i>Europas Sprung in die Neuzeit</i>, Die große Chronik-Weltgeschichte, 10 (Gütersloh: Wissen Media, 2008), p. 197. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3DVH8dVGkX0C&amp;pg=PA197">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3DVH8dVGkX0C&amp;pg=PA197</a><br>2. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1443-1112">Superstock: Dr. Schnabel of Rome, a Plague Doctor in 1656 Paul Fuerst Copper engraving (Stock Photo 1443-1112)</a>