M0009965: Diorama "The Rise of Anatomy showing a medieval dissection" displayed at the Paris exhibition, 1937

Date:: 16 April 1947

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/87/85

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0009877-M0009981WT/D/1/20/1/87
        M0009965: Diorama "The Rise of Anatomy showing a medieval dissection" displayed at the Paris exhibition, 1937WT/D/1/20/1/87/85

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M0009965: Diorama "The Rise of Anatomy showing a medieval dissection" displayed at the Paris exhibition, 1937. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced February 2021: Gui De Chauliac giving an anatomical demonstration at Montpellier, Diorama 1937.

Description

Photograph of a diorama based on an illustration in Treatise of Anatomy by the 14th century French surgeon Guy de Chauliac. It was created by E. W. Ashenden as part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's exhibits at the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris in 1937. The diorama is currently held by the Science Museum (object number A608505).

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16 April 1947

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1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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.

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