M0013859: Man undergoing plastic surgery on the lower lip, 16th century

Date:: January 1955

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/124/45

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0013813-M0013921WT/D/1/20/1/124
        M0013859: Man undergoing plastic surgery on the lower lip, 16th centuryWT/D/1/20/1/124/45

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Plastic surgery - 16th century.

Description

Woodcut from Tagliacozzi, Gaspare: De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo. In quibus ea omnia, quae ad huius chirurgiae…, Venetiis : Apud Gasparem Bindonum juniorem, 1597. Related images: M0013853, M0013854, M0013855, M0013856, M0013857, M0013858, M0013859, M0013860

Publication/Creation

January 1955

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds theEPBdepicted 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.

Terms of use

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