View of Domingo Fernandez, a black man with elephantiasis. Seen from the back.
Source creator:
Parra, Antonio
Source Title:
Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo, ...
Source place of publication:
Havana
Source publisher:
En la imprenta de la Capitanía
Source date:
1787
notes:
Text describes Domingo Fernandez, a black man from the Congo, with a sarcocele, a spherical hernia of the testicles or elephantiasis (disease caused by parasitic worms that is characterized by the thickening of the skin and underlying tissues, especially in the legs and genitals).The plates in this book represent almost half of the production of published Cuban images for the eighteenth century. It is the first Cuban book illustrated by a Cuban. The plates were etched by Manuel Antonio Parra, the author's son. Other copies of the book have hand-colored plates.Image title from chapter title.
