| Contributor |
Moore, Isaac W., engraver. |
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Woodside, John Archibald, illustrator. |
| Title |
Linton, Nancy, of Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania |
| Alternate title |
Nancy Linton : the representation, and her actual appearance after having been cured by the use of Swaim’s panacea / J.A.
Woodside del. ; I.W. Moore sc.
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| Publisher |
[Philadelphia? : s.n.] |
| Date |
[1829?] |
| Physical description |
1 print : engraving ; 14.5 x 8.9 cm |
| Description |
Full-length portrait of a woman with scars on her face, arms, and legs, seated with her right arm resting on a table next
to a bottle labeled “Swaim’s”.
|
| Notes |
In Cases of cures performed by the use of Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1829), frontispiece. |
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“One of the most extraordinary cures ever recorded in the annals of medicine”. |
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“See p. 25”. |
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According to the accompanying article, Nancy Linton was cured of scrofula by using Swaim’s panacea. |
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Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in A treatise on Swaim's panacea (Philadelphia, 1829), frontispiece. |
|
Another portrait of Nancy Linton (as Ana Linton) appears in Coleccion de casos, en ilustracion de las propiedades restaurativas
i sanativas de la panacea de Swaim, en varias enfermedades (Filadelfia, 1831), frontispiece.
|
|
Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in A treatise on the alterative and curative virtues of Swaim's panacea (Philadelphia,
1833), p. 86.
|
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Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [10]. |
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a hand-colored lithograph with minor differences in composition. ("Drawn on stone by W.H.
Kearney, printed by C. Hullmandel.") See Library Company of Philadelphia, Every man his own doctor (1998), p. 29.
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| Genre |
Engravings -- 1820-1829. |
|
Portrait prints -- 1820-1829. |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Linton, Nancy, of Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania -- Portraits. |
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Sick. |
|
Scrofula. |
