M0010466: "Metallic Tractors", James Gillray, 1801

Date:: 25 February 1948

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/92/48

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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- 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: M0010415-M0010522WT/D/1/20/1/92
        M0010466: "Metallic Tractors", James Gillray, 1801WT/D/1/20/1/92/48

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M0010466: "Metallic Tractors", James Gillray, 1801. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced February 2021: James Gillray, "Metallic Tractors", showing Elisha Perkins

Description

Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801, depicting an operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Related images: V0011088

Publication/Creation

25 February 1948

Physical description

5 photgraphs glass plate negative; slide transparencies; range in size from 10.8 x 8.3 cm to 12.7 x 10.2 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 11817i

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.

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