M0009400: Anthony D'Ailly's distillery, 1815

Previous title, replaced October 2020: D'Ailly's Laboratory, 1815

Photograph of No. 48 from the Berolzheimer series of alchemical and historical reproductions: a reproduction of an 1818 oil painting by Johannes Jelgerhuis depicting the distillery of the apothecary Anthony d'Ailly near the Bulwark on the Zaagmolenpoort in Amsterdam. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in the 1930s. The original painting is held by the Rijks Museum (object number SK-A-2713)

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.