M0014079: Statue of an unidentified saint and a child or cherub / M0014080: Statue of Saint Nicholas of Bari

Previous title, replaced January 2022: A Saint.

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

Two wooden statues, one of an unknown saint acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4849/1937). The other of St Nicholas of Bari (270-343) Bishop of Myra and three babies in a tub. Patron of children and invoked against conjugal sterility and rheumatism. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4740/1937). Neither is held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: acc. number R4849/1937 and acc. number R4740/1937

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.