M0007104: Manuscript illustration of charlatan doctor with assistant

Date:
30 July 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/60/92
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M0007104: Manuscript illustration of charlatan doctor with assistant. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Charlatan with assistants.

Description

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified 15th century manuscript, possibly from Vienna. This illustration is a minature depicting a charlatan doctor and his assistant standing on a table, addressing a crowd. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 20th July 1936 (PHO 8661).

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 13.2 x 10 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 806. Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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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