M0009974: A barber surgeon bloodletting

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Village barber surgeon, by Juysckaert

Reproduction of a painting by David Ryckaert of a barber surgeon letting blood from a patient, published in Hollander, Eugen: Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei, Stuttgart : F. Enke, 1923.

23 April 1947

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.