M0004551: Illustration of scuplture of Hypnos

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Hypnos.

A reproduction of a photograph of a print illustration of the marble sculpture of "Hypnos", the personification of sleep in Greeky mythology, also believed to be the brother of "Death" (Thanatos) and son of "Night" (Nyx) and "Erebus" (the darkness of hell), taken from the journal Archäologische Zeitung. The original sculpture is located at the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain.

29 January 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.