Details
Contributor Moore, Isaac W., engraver.
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.
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.
“One of the most extraordinary cures ever recorded in the annals of medicine”.
“See p. 25”.
According to the accompanying article, Nancy Linton was cured of scrofula by using Swaim’s panacea.
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.
Another portrait of Nancy Linton appears in Swaim’s panacea (Philadelphia, 1848), p. [10].
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.
Genre Engravings -- 1820-1829.
Portrait prints -- 1820-1829.
Subject Women.
Linton, Nancy, of Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania -- Portraits.
Sick.
Scrofula.