M0011548: Hogarth's "The Company of Undertakers", 1736

Date:: 1950

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/102/72

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: M0011468-M0011583WT/D/1/20/1/102
        M0011548: Hogarth's "The Company of Undertakers", 1736WT/D/1/20/1/102/72

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Hogarth's The Company of Undertakers.

Description

Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself with the caption "The Company of Undertakers" showing a shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Related images: V0006698

Publication/Creation

1950

Physical description

3 photographs glass plate negative; sheet film negative; photographic print; range in size from 12 x 9.2 cm to 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds item depicted in the glass plate negative: 544396i

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 2021.

Terms of use

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