M0010466: "Metallic Tractors", James Gillray, 1801

Previous title, replaced February 2021: James Gillray, "Metallic Tractors", showing Elisha Perkins

Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801, depicting an operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Related images: V0011088

25 February 1948

5 photgraphs glass plate negative; slide transparencies; range in size from 10.8 x 8.3 cm to 12.7 x 10.2 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 11817i

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.