Félix Méheux
Test Tubes with Tuberculosis Germs in Glycerin Gel

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Artist Félix Méheux(French, 1838–1908)French, 1838–1908

CultureFrench

Titles

Test Tubes with Tuberculosis Germs in Glycerin Gel

Date1887

MediumWoodburytype

DimensionsImage (top): 4 13/16 × 5 1/16 in. (12.2 × 12.8 cm)
Sheet (top): 4 13/16 × 5 1/16 in. (12.2 × 12.8 cm)
Image (bottom): 1 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (3.8 × 4.5 cm)
Sheet (bottom): 1 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (3.8 × 4.5 cm)
Mount: 9 3/16 × 5 11/16 in. (23.3 × 14.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by various donors

Object number2017.4

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Denis Canguilhem, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed in black, recto, top center above image: ANNALES DE L’INSTITUT PASTEUR
Printed in black, recto, above image with the numbers appearing above each test tube: 2 4b 1 4a 4c
Printed in black, recto, lower left: No 1. Culture du bacilli de la Tuber- //culose sur gélose glycerinée, après // un mois de séjour à l’étuve. // No 2. Culture de la Tuberculose sur / gélose glycerinée.
Printed in black, recto, lower right: No 3. [N is partially cut off by image] Culture de la Tuberculose. Piqure dans un tube de gélose // glycerinée. La Culture s’est étalée // sur la surface libre. ¬– Vue d’en haut.
Printed in black, recto, lower center, below small image: 3
Printed in black, recto, lower center: No 4. Tubes de Culture pour montrer l’influence de la glycérine ajoutée au miliewu. – a, Gélose, Glycerine, Peptone. // – b, Gélose nutritive. – c, Gélose glycerinée.
Printed in black, recto, lower left: Photogr. F. Méheux

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