M0017159: Original Culpeper microscope with case, c.1735

Previous title, replaced March 2022: The original Culpeper microscope.

Photograph of an original Culpeper microscope with characteristic alternating arrangement of the legs above and below the stage, alongside its pyramidal box, inside which Culpeper's trade card is to be seen. The card shows the 'Crossed Daggers' - the sign at which Culpeper worked. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1949 (accession number R64/1949). It is now held by the Science Museum (object number A1849). Related images: M0017158

December 1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R64/1949

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.