M0011104: "A midwife going to a labour", Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

Previous title, replaced April 2021: An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours o

Colour etching by Thomas Rowlandson with the caption "A Midwife going to a Labour". Related images: V0014925

November 1949

8 photographs sheet film negative; slide transparencies, photographic print; range in size from 5 x 5 cm to 12.5 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 16984i

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 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.