M0013568: Illustration of cooks making food for the sick

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Cooking for the sick, 16thC

Photograph of possibly a woodcut depicting cooks making food for the sick, from the title page of Ryff, Walther Hermann: Neu Kochbuch fur die Krancken, Frankfurt: 1545. This reproduction was made from Aesculape, January 1938. Related images: M0013569, M0013570, M0013571

July 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.