M0001405: Reproduction of an illustration of "Leaves of the bark tree, of Tecamez"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Leaves of the bark tree of Tecamez.

Black and white reproduction of "Leaves of the bark tree, of Tecamez", as captioned in Lambert, Aylmer Bourke (1761-1842): An illustration of the genus Cinchona;comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. The illustration was reproduced as part of the facsimiles lent by The Linnean Society of London and exhibited in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The illustration is described as one of "Eight of the original wash drawings of Cinchona species made by F. L. Bauer, for A. B. Lambert's "Description of the Genus Cinchona", facsimilies of" and is listed as exhibit no. 929 in the souvenir catalogue. An edition of this book is held by Wellcome Collection.

20 November 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in. An edition of the publication has also been digitised by Wellcome Collection

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.