M0011219: "La pauvre femme en couche" [The poor woman in childbirth]

Previous title, replaced April 2021: A poor woman in childbirth being watched by her husband.

Engraving by J.-J. Frilley, 1827, after Ary Scheffer, showing a poor woman in bed with her newborn child, with her husband beside her. The engraving has the caption (not shown) "La pauvre femme en couche". Related images: L0004085

January 1950

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm/photographic print; 15.5 x 11.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 673586i

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.