M0015538: Illustration of Cucumis turcicus

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Curcumis turcicus after Fuchus De Historia stirpium

Reproduction of an illustration of the plant, after Fuchs: De Historia Stirpium, 1542, published in Arber, Agnes Robertson: Herbals, their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670, Cambridge : The University Press, 1938

December 1956

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.