M0000672: Statue of Hygeia standing

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Statue of Hygeia standing

Photograph of a statue of the Ancient Greek goddess Hygeia standing, holding snake and bowl out before her. It is a cast of an orginal held by the Louvre. Paris. The cast was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession number 42/1935). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

01 January 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: acc. number R42/1935 (image 24)

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.