M0013779: Oil painting of the Fountain of Life

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Byzantine Plaque of the Fountain of Life.

Oil painting on wood of the Fountain of Life. The item was purchased in Cairo by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and accessioned in 1932 (accession numbers CC 9773 and P1371/1938). Related images: V0017496

November 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 44949i

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.