M0007408: Altar piece depicting St. Peter

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Altar piece showing St. Peter wearing spectacles.

Photograph of a half tone print from an unidentified source, showing a 15th century altar piece depicting St. Peter wearing spectacles, in the church of St. James, Rothenberg, Bavaria. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 9th December 1936 (PHO 9065).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 9065.

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.