M0009535: The birth figures and the womans stoole, from Rosslin: The Birth of Mankind, 1552

Previous title, replaced October 2020: The birth figures, I & II: the womans stooles.

Woodcut illustration of a birthing stool and two positions of a foetus, published in Rosslin, Eucharius: The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe…, London: By T[homas] R[aynalde], 1540

07 August 1946

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/5510

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.