M0012909: Illustration of artificial legs

Date:
April 1953
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Description

Photograph of possibly a woodcut illustration showing two wooden artificial legs, with caption text above, reproduced from Lowe, Peter, A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie. Wherein is exactly set downe the definition, causes, accidents, prognostications, and cures of all sorts of diseases ..., London : Thomas Purfoot, 1612. Related images: M0012908, M0012910

Publication/Creation

April 1953

Physical description

1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

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

Terms of use

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

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 2022.

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