M0015584: Illustration of a winding-sheet containing a corpse, 15th century

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Winding-sheet containing corpse, 15th century.

Illustration published in Cutts, Edward Lewes: A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages, London : J. H. Parker, 1849

December 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/19517

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 2021.

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