M0016547: Key to an engraving of a commercial chemical laboratory, mid-18th century

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Key to engraving of commercial chemical laboratory.

A key to an engraving, 1778, of a large chemical laboratory filled with apparatus and types of glass vessel. It was published in a contemporary dictionary of the arts and sciences. The engraving can be seen in image M0016545. Related images: V0025584

January 1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item the key relates to: 37175i

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.

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