M0008253: Woodcut of surgical scissors and razors

Date:
October 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/71/84
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Credit

M0008253: Woodcut of surgical scissors and razors. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Woodcut: Scissors, surgical and razors.

Description

Photograph of a woodcut from an unknown 16th century German treatise on surgery. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number PHO 8433)

Publication/Creation

October 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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