M0017669: Illustration of a midwife holding a newborn baby by the head with forceps, 1887

Date:
November 1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/158/33
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M0017669: Illustration of a midwife holding a newborn baby by the head with forceps, 1887. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Satirical cartoon, Grevy with midwife holding baby in forceps

Description

Reproduction of a satirical cartoon showing former French President, Jules Grevy having just given birth, with the midwife holding the baby by the head with forceps. Published in Witkowski, G.-J.: Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1887

Publication/Creation

November 1959

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 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 2022.

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