M0014124: Panel showing Saint Margaret of Antioch (also known as Margaret the Virgin)

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Margaret of Antioch (20th July).

Wooden panel of St Margaret of Antioch, also known as Margaret the Virgin (3rd century). Patron saint of nurses and invoked for pregnant women and against sterility and wounds and maladies of the face. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1955 (accession number R39/1955). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R39/1955

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.