M0015533: A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic

Previous title, replaced March 2022: A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epid

Etching, c.1832, by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir satirizing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Related images: V0011935

December 1956

3 photographs glass plate negative, sheet film negative, photographic print; range in size from 12.5 x 10 to 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 17848i

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 2021.

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