M0019128: Plague during the siege of Leiden, 1574 / M0019129: Famine during the siege of Leiden, 1574
- Date:
- August 1962
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/170/31
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced October 2020: Plague during the siege of Leiden, 1574.
Previous title, replaced October 2020: Famine during the siege of Leiden, 1574.
Description
Two images on one negative: engravings by J. Orlers, 1614, of victims of the plague during the Siege of Leiden (Leyden) in 1574 and of famine scenes during the siege. The engravings are part of a series of six produced by Orlers.
Publication/Creation
August 1962
Physical description
2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Notes
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.
Terms of use
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Where to find it
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