M0002197: Bottom left quarter of a map of America in 1648

Date:: 25 June 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/18/85

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001912-M0002212WT/D/1/20/1/18
        M0002197: Bottom left quarter of a map of America in 1648WT/D/1/20/1/18/85

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Bottom left quarter of map of America in 1648.

Description

Reproduction of the bottom left quarter of a map of America in 1648 by Johannes Blaeu, or Joan Blaeu (1596-1673). The reproduction is from the map lent by the Royal Geographical Society, London, and exhibited in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The map is listed as exhibit no. 434 in the souvenir catalogue, and is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0002196, M0002198, M0002199

Publication/Creation

25 June 1931

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

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

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.