M0005747: "View of the manner of burying dead bodies"

Date:
07 October 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/57
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Credit

M0005747: "View of the manner of burying dead bodies". Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: View of the burial of dead bodies

Description

Etching after Samuel Wale (d. 1786) depicting men burying plague victims at night in 1665. Related images: V0010614.

Publication/Creation

07 October 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 10071i

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.

Terms of use

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

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