M0014099: Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, represented as trampling upon a heretic / M0014100: Statue of Our Lady of Treguron / M0014101: Statue of Our Lady of Deliverance

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Our lady of Deliverance.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Our Lady, represented as trampling upon a Moor (?) connoting heresy and refers to the parallel representation of her crushing the serpent's head.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Our Lady of Treguron, one of a series ofn Breton statues.

Three statues, one of the Virgin Mary represented as trampling upon a heretic, one of Our Lady of Treguron breastfeeding a child, one of a series of Breton statues and invoked by local pregnant women, and one of Our Lady of Deliverance holding an infant, invoked by expectant mothers for a safe delivery. The first statue was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and given accession number A104435, the second was purchased by the Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R441/1938) and the third was purchased by the Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R434/1938). None of the statues are held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for two of the items: acc. number R441/1938 and acc. number R434/1938

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.