M0012413: Illustration of plague doctor

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Plague doctor's costume; probably 17th century.

Photograph of a woodcut depicting a plague doctor with text in French underneath. This reproduction was taken from the frontispiece of Muratori, Lodovico Antonio: Del governo della peste, e delle maniere de guardarsene, trattato ..., Modena : B. Soliani, 1714.

March 1952

3 photographs glass plate negative, sheet film negative; photographic print; range in size from 11.5 x 8.5 to 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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 2022.

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