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Title
A Physician Wearing a Seventeenth-Century Plague Preventive Costume
Date
c.1910
Medium
watercolour on paper (?)
Measurements
H 50.8 x W 35.9 cm
Accession number
2084i
Acquisition method
commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome, c.1910
Work type
Watercolour
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road, London, Greater London NW1 2BE England
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