M0014017: Three statues of Saint Roch (Rocco)

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Roch, represented showing a bubonic sore under the guise of a pilgrim.

Three statues of Saint Roch (Rocco) (c.1348-c.1379) pointing at a bubonic sore on his leg or with an attendant doing so. One statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R797/1939). The other two were purchased in 1930 and at an unknown point respectively, and accessioned in 1937 (accession numbers R4769/1937 and R4812/1937. They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

June 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12.5 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R797/1939 (image 202) and acc. number R4769/1937 and R4812/1937 (images 198 and 209)

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.