M0007661: Interior scene in a surgery with two patients being treated

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Interior of a surgery with two operators, one letting blood

Photograph of an oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger, depicting the interior of a surgery showing blood letting treatment and treatment to a man's back, taken close up. The painting was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 10th January 1940 (P73/1940). Related images: V0017414, V0017415, V0017416

24 January 1941

6 photographs glass plate negative; 10 x 12.5 cm sheet film negatives; 9.9 x 12.4 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 44866i; Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative: P73/1940

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.

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