M0013523: Illustration of a scene outside The Foundling Hospital, Holborn

Previous title, replaced January 2022: The Foundling Hospital.

Photograph of an engraving by Hogarth depicting a scene outside The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, showing a figure carrying a charter intended for Coram. This reproduction was made from Brownlow, John: Memoranda; or, chronicles of the Foundling Hospital, including memoirs of Captain Coram, etc, London: Sampson Low, 1847.

July 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 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.