M0013894: Child's cradle, Italian, 16th-17th century

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Child's cradle, Italian, 16th-17th century.

Photograph of a cradle on rockers, the same type as appears on frescos on the Hospital of San Spirito, Rome. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 and given accession number A100579. It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

March 1955

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 11 x 14.5 cm

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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