M0006837: Two children in swaddling clothes

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Painting of twins in swaddling clothes, 17thC

Photograph of an oil painting by an unknown artist depicting two children, possibly twins, in swaddling clothes, 17th century. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 17, Jumeaux emmaillottes, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting is held by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

1 May 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12.5 cm photographic print; 12 x 9 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

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.

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