M0017671: Illustration of a childbirth position, Italy, 16th century

Date:
November 1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/158/35
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M0017671: Illustration of a childbirth position, Italy, 16th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Childbirth position, Italy, 16thC, after S. Mercurio.

Description

Reproduction of an illustration after Scipione [Girolamo] Mercurio of a woman giving birth in 16th century Italy. Published in Witkowski, G.-J.: Accoucheurs et sages-femmes célébres : esquisses biographiques, Paris : G. Steinheil, c.1891

Publication/Creation

November 1959

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

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