OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Brödel, Max, illustrator Photogravure inscribed ("Wm. Osler"), being a photomechanical reproduction Max Brödel's iconic drawing, "The Saint - John's Hopkin's Hospital," 210 x 126 mm, mounted on board, inscribed by Osler to mount beneath illustration, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler," discoloration to mount, matted.An extremely rare inscribed copy of Max Brödel's iconic and imaginative image of a winged Osler floating above the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The inscription reads, "Angelically yours, Wm. Osler." Max Brödel was America's leading medical illustrator during the first four decades of the twentieth century. See Crosby and Cody, Max Brödel: The man who put art into medicine, (New York, 1991), pp 330-331 for a discussion of this image. For Thomas Cullen's 1949 essay on the image (and a reproduction of it) see Golden and Roland, Sir William Osler: An Annotated Bibliography, (1988), pp 178-181.