M0001063: Etching of a man well-prepared for the 1832 cholera epidemic

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cholera: caricature: 19th century

Illustration for a text by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (1795-1858) representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera.

11 August 1930

2 photographs glass plate negative, sheet film negative, photographic print; range in size from 12.5 x 10 to 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 17849i

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.