M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest Board

Date:: April 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/17/40

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911WT/D/1/20/1/17
        M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest BoardWT/D/1/20/1/17/40

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M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest Board. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting

Description

Black and white reproduction of The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846 an oil painting by Ernest Board (1877-1934), circa 1920, held by Wellcome Collection (former registration number for WHMM iconographic collections: CC 5434). Related images: V0018140

Publication/Creation

April 1931

Physical description

9 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm sheet film negatives; 12.5 x 10 cm slide transparency; 3.5 x 3.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 45904i

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 2020.

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