Ziekenzaal van St. Hiob 1783

This 1783 etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, titled "Ziekenzaal van St. Hiob" (Sickroom of St. Job), depicts a scene of a hospital ward with several patients lying in their beds. The focus of the image is on a group of men standing at the foot of a bed, one of them pointing to a patient. This poignant scene, now housed in the Rijksmuseum, captures the realities of illness and mortality in the 18th century and is a valuable historical document of medical practices during this period.