Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
623 results
  • Leiden pest house, bird's-eye view. Etching.
  • The plague of Florence, 1348; an episode in the Decameron by Boccaccio. Etching by L. Sabatelli the elder after G. Boccaccio.
  • The plague of Florence, 1348; an episode in the Decameron by Boccaccio. Etching by L. Sabatelli the elder after G. Boccaccio.
  • Government soldiers cleansing by fire the plague-ridden village of Vietlanka, Astrakhan in 1879. Reproduction of a wood engraving by D. Vierge.
  • The plague spreads to America. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The plague of Florence, 1348; an episode in the Decameron by Boccaccio. Etching by L. Sabatelli the elder after G. Boccaccio.
  • A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching after J. Petzl (?), ca. 1832.
  • The plague of Florence, 1348; an episode in the Decameron by Boccaccio. Etching by L. Sabatelli the elder after G. Boccaccio.
  • A man dying from the plague in Manchuria. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching after J. Petzl (?), ca. 1832.
  • A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching after J. Petzl (?), ca. 1832.
  • A man lying dead, from the plague, church and flames in background. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A monk visiting the victims of the great plague of Milan in 1630; an episode in Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
  • A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching after J. Petzl (?), ca. 1832.
  • Government soldiers cleansing by fire the plague-ridden village of Vietlanka, Astrakhan in 1879. Reproduction of a wood engraving by D. Vierge.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague through countryside and towns. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • All forms of transport play their part in the transmission of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • New York seen through the porthole of an arriving ship, bringing the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A street scene in a European city, prior to the arrival of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour, ca. 1910.
  • People dying, as a result of the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The plague of the Israelites. Drawing by M. Penley, 18--, after G.E. Petit after P. Mignard.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague to its destination. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A physician wearing a plague preventive costume in Marseille, 1720. Watercolour, 19--.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Adolf Hitler. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats fighting; the plague spreading. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats stowing away in large boxes, carrying the plague to new places. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.