M0012911: Illustration of instruments for dissection

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Woodcut: instruments for dissection.

Photograph of a woodcut illustration after Vesalius, showing instruments for dissection laid out on a table, with caption text in English and Latin above, reproduced from Banister, John, The historie of man, sucked from the sappe of the most approved anathomistes, in this present age, compiled in most compendious fourme, and now published in English. For the utilitie of all godly chirurgians, within this realme ..., London : John Daye, 1578.

April 1953

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm print; 10.7 x 15.2 cm

Wellcome Collection holds 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.