M0017628: Woodcut of a childbirth scene, 1580

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Childbirth scene showing delivery and bath, 1580

Woodcut of a childbirth scene showing the delivery and the infant's bath being prepared and in the background an astrologer studying the stars. From Ruff, Jakob: De conceptu et generatione hominis, Frankfort : G. Corvinus for S. Feyerabendius, 1580.

October 1959

2 photographs glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm photographic print; 7 x 9.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/6976

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.

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