M0007344: Plan of baths of Diocletian

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Bath of Diocletian. A plan.

Photograph of an engraving from Bacci, Andrea: De thermis ... libri septem ... In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis de lacubus fontibus, fluminibus. De balneis totius orbis, et de methodo medendi per balneas. Deque lavationum, simul atque exercitationum institutis in admirandis thermis Romanorum ..., Venetiis: Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1571, depicting a plan of the baths of Diocletian. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 20th August 1935 (PHO 3484).

6 September 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10 x 12.4 cm photographic print; 8 x 10.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the item from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 3484

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 2020.

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