M0014846: Dancing mania, also known as St Vitus's Dance and dancing plague

Date:
August 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/132/75
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2021: The dancing mania

Description

Reproduction of an engraving, 1642, by Hondius after Pieter Brueghel showing dancing mania. Published in Hollander, Eugen: Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei, Stuttgart : F. Enke, 1923

Publication/Creation

August 1956

Physical description

4 photographs sheet film plate negatives, photographic prints; range in size from 12 x 8.6 to 12.7 x 10.2 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

Where to find it

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