M0004965: Woman preparing a love potion, mosaic

Date:
2 November 1936
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/40/54
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Credit

M0004965: Woman preparing a love potion, mosaic. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Pompeian mosaic: a witch preparing love filtres

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a mosaic from Pompeii depicting a woman making love potions for two younger women. Reproduced in in Laignel-Lavastine, M: Histoire generale de la medecine, de la pharmacie, de l'art dentaire et de l'art veterinaire,

Publication/Creation

2 November 1936

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

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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