M0000732: Robert Herman Koch (1843-1910) at work in his laboratory, from Osler: The evolution of modern medicine (1921)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Photogravure of gouache painting: R. Koch

Photogravure of a gouache painting depicting Robert Herman Koch (1843-1910), German bacteriologist, working in his laboratory at Kimberley, South Africa. The photogravure was reproduced in Osler, William: The evolution of modern medicine : a series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in April, 1913 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921). Related images: M0015608.

09 May 1930

4 photographs glass plate negative, sheet film negative, photographic print; range in size from 13 x 10 cm to 16.5 x 12 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 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.