M0008724: Surgeon treating a thigh wound.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Fresco: a surgeon treating a thigh wound.

Photograph of a fresco found at Pompeii (submerged 79 AD).

10 December 1942

3 photographs glass plate negative, sheet film negative, photographic print; range in size from 8.3 x 10.8 cm to 10 x 12.5cm

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.