About This Item
Title
Figure d'une fille veluë, & d'un enfant noir, faits par la vertu imaginative
Subject
Book Illustrations
Description
Title taken from caption of woodcut.
Image of a hairy woman and a black child.
The hairy woman was the result of her mother imagining St. John the Baptist dressed in hair skin. An image of John the Baptist was at the foot of the bed when the hairy child was conceived.
The black child was the child to two white parents. However, the mother had a painting of a Moor hanging above her bed, and it was thought that the image of the Moor caused the child to be black.
Creator
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590
Source
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1614
Language
French
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZEa_9f.1021a
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
13 x 7 cm
Citation
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, “Figure d'une fille veluë, & d'un enfant noir, faits par la vertu imaginative,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/3107.