M0007426: Illustration of a surgeon operating on a patient's eyes from Ophthalmodouleia

Date:
6 September 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/63/81
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation on the eye

Description

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustration depicts a surgeon operating on a patient's eyes from above with the patient laid on a table. Related images: M0007416, M0007422, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007415.

Publication/Creation

6 September 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

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.

Terms of use

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

Where to find it

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