M0007662: A surgeon tying a tourniquet around a man's arm

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A surgeon tying a tourniquet around a man's arm. Oil paintin

Photograph of a framed oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger depicting a surgeon tying a tourniquet around a man's arm. A caption attached to the frame titles the work 'The Barber Surgeon' and attributes the work to David Teniers the Elder, likely for display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The painting was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 20th November 1939 (R2693/1939).

27 January 1941

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 2645i

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.

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