M0014657: Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo

Date:
1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/130/96
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M0014657: Disposal of dead bodies during the cholera epidemic of 1835 in Palermo. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Cholera in Palermo, 1835.

Description

Lithograph by Gabriele Castagnola showing men in uniform picking up a corpse in the street and putting it on a wagon, said to be a depiction of cholera in Palermo in 1835. Related images: V0010486

Publication/Creation

1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 1989i

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.

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