M0014133: Statue of Saint Thegonnec / M0014134: Statue of Saint Anne / M0014135: Statue of Saint Maurice

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Maurice (13th October).

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Thegonnec

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Anne with Mary as child, teaching her to read.

Three wooden statues, one of St Thegonnec, one of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, holding a book and a scroll, and one of St Maurice (d.1171) whose feast day is on 13th October and is invoked against convulsions in children. The first statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R579/1938). The second was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and the third was purchased by the Medical Museum in 1935 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R467/1938). 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 R579/1938 and acc. number R467/1938

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.