M0014079: Statue of an unidentified saint and a child or cherub / M0014080: Statue of Saint Nicholas of Bari
- Date:
- 1955
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Two wooden statues, one of an unknown saint acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4849/1937). The other of St Nicholas of Bari (270-343) Bishop of Myra and three babies in a tub. Patron of children and invoked against conjugal sterility and rheumatism. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4740/1937). Neither is held by Wellcome Collection.
Publication/Creation
1955
Physical description
1 photograph
glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm
glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: acc. number R4849/1937 and acc. number R4740/1937
Copyright note
Copyright held by Wellcome Collection
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item Open.
Notes
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 2022.
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Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
Location Access Closed storesCan't be requested Note