1877 Lithograph French King Charles IX Surgeon Ambrose Pare Deathbed XEF8 MOVIE Knives Vintage Advertising

Knives Vintage Advertising

There is some light staining in the outer borders--please see image

In image 2 there is a brown blemish in the top margin also in the bottom left there is a water stain

Sturtevant Company located in Hyde Park

Keywords specific to this image: Russell Library

1877 Lithograph French King Charles IX Surgeon Ambrose Pare Deathbed XEF8 MOVIE Knives Vintage AdvertisingThis is an original 1877 monochrome lithograph of French King Charles IX explaining his nightmares to his personal surgeon, Ambrose Pare. He died at the age of 24, so stressed from the guilt of participating in the massacre of St. Bartholomew that blood oozed from the pores of his skin before he breathed his last. The massacre of St. Bartholomew lasted a week, and an estimated seventy thousand Huguenots were butchered. A spectral figure of a woman and