M0017197EA: Ivory spectacles case, c.1500

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Spectacle case, ivory, circa 1500

Photograph of one side of an ivory glasses case, c.1500, decorated with a depiction of "Death and the docotor", with a doctor holding a pair of spectacles, a baby in a cradle, a skeleton and an hour-glass. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem and accessioned in 1917 (accession number R14408). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0017197EB

February 1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R14408

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

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