M0016546: Illustration of a commercial chemical laboratory, mid-18th century

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Commercial chemical laboratory of the mid 18th Century.

Engraving, 1778, of a large chemical laboratory filled with apparatus and types of glass vessel. It was published in a contemporary dictionary of the arts and sciences. An accompanying key can be seen in image M0016546.

January 1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 37175i

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.