M0011221: A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after birth, c.1840

Previous title, replaced April 2021: A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby

Wood engraving by Orrin Smith, c.1840, after Kenny Meadows. Related images: V0011057

January 1950

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm photographic print; 15.5 x 11.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 11737i

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 2021.

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