M0006953: Scene in a 'lying-in room'

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lying-in room: XVIIth century

Photograph of a watercolour drawing depicting a lying-in room. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Dessin [Drawing] 89, Chambre de l'accouchee, in the exhibition catalogue. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 18th March 1937 (PHO 9639).

1 May 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique. Wellcome Collection holds the acce

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.

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