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Copper engraving of Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) and Hendrik Ulhoorn (c. 1692-1749), by Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761), after a design by Louis Fabritius Dubourg (1693-1775), published in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, in 1739. Allegorical figures with laurel wreaths on their heads show the portraits of German surgeon and professor Lorenz Heister and the Amsterdam surgeon Hendrik Ulhoorn. Ulhoorn translated and edited Heister's book Surgery Teaching from German. At the top, Faam blows the trumpet. Aesculapius, the god of health and medicine, holds an esculap in one hand and shows the portrait of Ulhoorn with the other. On the left a putto with surgical instruments and a mirror with a snake, as a symbol of Caution. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.
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