M0013531:Illustration of Fountain of Youth.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Fountain of Youth.

Photograph of a woodcut by A. Glockendon after Hans Sebald Beham depicting human figures bathing in the Fountain of Youth, c.1570. This reproduction was made from Martin, Alfred (Ferdinand Heinrich Alfred): Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen : nebst einem Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Wasserheilkunde, Jena : Diederichs, 1906. Related images: M0013231, M0013232, M0013233, M0013234, M0013530, M0013231

July 1954

2 photographs glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm print; 6.8 x 9.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.