M0007483: 'The Leprozenhuis', Amsterdam, 1765

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Leper hospital, Amsteram, 1765

Photograph of an engraving by W. Writs after J. de Beyer, 1768, of 'The Leprozenhuis', a hospital used to house people with leprosy in Amsterdam, with caption in Dutch and French. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 22nd October 1935 (PHO 5535).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5535.

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.