M0014098: Two statues of Saint Nicholas of Bari

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Nicholas of Bari (6th December).

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Nicholas of Bari (6th December).

Two wooden statues of St Nicholas of Bari (270-343) Bishop of Myra, patron of children and invoked against conjugal sterility and rheumatism. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in (right statue) 1937 (accession number R4739/1937) and (left statue) 1938 (accession number R431/1938). Neither statue is held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide an entry for the items: acc. number R431/1938 and acc. number R4739/1937

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.