M0011650: Earliest known illustration showing Caesarian Section, 1498

Date:: December 1950

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/103/62

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0011584-M0011691WT/D/1/20/1/103
        M0011650: Earliest known illustration showing Caesarian Section, 1498WT/D/1/20/1/103/62

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Earliest known illustration showing Caesarian Section, 1498

Description

Woodcut showing the birth of Antichrist, published in Methodius of Olympus: Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae, Basel : Michael Furter, 5 Jan

Publication/Creation

December 1950

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/INC/3.a.7

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.