M0014569: St. Vitus's Dance, Pieter Brueghel the elder

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Pieter Brueghel the elder; St. Vitus's Dance

Photograph of a drawing by Pieter Brueghel the elder showing a group on people on a pilgrimage to Meulebeke dancing erratically. Outbreaks of mass psychosis taking the form of dance frenzies were known as St. Vitus's Dance, dancing mania and dancing plauge. The photograph was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at the VIth International Congress of Medicine, 1927 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 10180).

1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number PHO 10180

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 2021.

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