M0012191EB: Photograph of three individual removable wax parts from a female anatomical model used for teaching purposes, including a womb, placenta and foetus

Previous title, replaced May 2022: French female figure modelled in wax, with various parts move

Photograph of three individual removable wax parts from a female anatomical model used for teaching purposes, including a womb, placenta and foetus. The M Series register suggests the model is 18th century and French, and is possibly attributed to Clemente Susini (previously attributed to Anna Morandi Manzolini). The model was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 7th December 1951 (R205/1951) and is now held by the Science Museum (A627043). Related images: M0007284, M0007258, M0012191/M0012191EA, M0012192, M0012193, M0012194, M0012195, M0012196, M0012196EA, M0012197, M0012198, M0012199, M0012200

1951

1 photograph

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R205/1951

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 2022.

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