M0019967: Artificial right arm with fist clenched, c.1602

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Artificial arm, circa 1602, with fist clenched.

Photograph of an artificial right arm made of iron with flexible joints at the elbow and wrist. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of the Harmonic Collection in 1928 and accessioned in 1945 (accession number R13/1945). Related images: M0019965, M0019966

September-December 1964

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R14/1945

Copyright is 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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.