A woman in bed recovering from childbirth, a midwife washes the baby while another attendant looks after the mother. Woodcut.

1 print : woodcut ; image 8.5 x 8.7 cm

Sixteenth century lying-in-room, Switzerland. ... Lettering continues: "After a woodcut appearing in the works of Jacob Rueff, a Swiss physician of that period. In nearly all of the old pictures of the lying-in-room the nurse is shown washing the child. Frequently she has her feet immersed in the water to test its temperature. The human foot is a much more sensitive "thermometer" than the hand."

This print is similar in compostion to the frontispiece of: J. Rueff, De conceptu et generatione hominis ..., Frankfurt 1580

On the same mount as record numbers 16917 and 16926

Wellcome Collection 16930i