M0006868: A seated woman with the personification of death leaning towards her face

Photograph of a drawing by Jacques de Gheijn, depicting a seated woman with the personification of death leaning towards her face. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Dessin [Drawing] 8, Une femme surprise par la mort, in the exhibition catalogue. The original drawing is held by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

1 May 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

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.