M0009535: The birth figures and the womans stoole, from Rosslin: The Birth of Mankind, 1552

Date:: 07 August 1946

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/83/99

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M0009535: The birth figures and the womans stoole, from Rosslin: <i>The Birth of Mankind</i>, 1552. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: The birth figures, I & II: the womans stooles.

Description

Woodcut illustration of a birthing stool and two positions of a foetus, published in Rosslin, Eucharius: The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe…, London: By T[homas] R[aynalde], 1540

Publication/Creation

07 August 1946

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/5510

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.

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