M0009395: Chemical laboratory, Paris, 1760

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Chemical laboratory, Paris. 1760

No. 44 from the Berolzheimer series of alchemical and historical reproductions. Photograph of an egraving first published in Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie depicting a Parisian chemical laboratory with instruments, furnaces and vessels. There is an accompanying key (see image M0009396). The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 2885). Related images: M0009406

19 February 1946

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.