M0006843: A physician examining a urine flask

Date:
1 May 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/58/16
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: The Medicine (the doctor)

Description

Photograph of an oil painting by J.A. van Staveren after Gerard Dou, depicting a physician examining a urine flask through a niche, 1668. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 23, Le medecin, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting is held by Rijks Museum, Amsterdam.

Publication/Creation

1 May 1940

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12.5 cm

Related material

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

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

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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