M0014029: Two statues of Saint Roch (Rocco)

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Roch (16th August).

Wooden votive offering to St Roch, patron saint of plague, and a metal statuette of St Roch surmounted by a canopy of metal work on a wooden base. The ex-voto was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and given accession number A67505. The statuette was acquired in Berlin at an unknown point and accessioned in 1925 (accession number R16065). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R592/1938 and R609/1938 (image 459) and R16065 (image 226)

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.