M0014536: "Fountain of Life", oil painting

Previous title, replaced January 2022: 'Fountain of Life', Byzantine Plaque, 17th century.

17th century Byzantine oil painting on wood. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in Istanbul in 1931 and given accessio numbers P1370/1938 and CC 5425. Related images: V0017490

March 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 44943i

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.