M0005435: Saint Pantaleon holding book and pen / M0005435EB: People worshipping at an outdoor church or shrine

Previous title, replaced November 2021: St. Pantaleon holding book and pen: Greek icon, 9/10th century.

Two images on one negative. One is a photograph of a reproduction of a photograph of a Greek icon of the 9th or 10th century depicting St. Pantaleon. The source of the reproduction is unknown. The original icon is held by the Kondakoff Institute, Prague. The other image is a photograph of an unidentified outdoor church or shrine. The photographs were compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938.

March 1938

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.