M0014013: Two statues of Saint Tugean, Breton Saint invoked against rabies

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Tugean, Breton Saint invoked against dogs,

Two carved wooden statues of Saint Tugean, Breton Saint invoked against rabies, wolves and hydrophobia. He is often represented as a bishop with a child on his rght and a wolf or a dog on his left. Sometimes he is shown with a key placed on the back of a wolf, he is then dressed as a monk. The statue on the left was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4743/1937) and the one on the right was purchased in 1928 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R428/1938). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

June 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12.5 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the item: acc. number R4743/1937 (image 194) and R428/1938 (image 15)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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