M0005449: Cures taking place at a sacred well, oil on panel

Date:
March 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/44/74
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M0005449: Cures taking place at a sacred well, oil on panel. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Byzantine Plaque: Eastern Holy Wells in which where built 'Fountains of Youth'. Painting, Coptic School.

Description

Photograph of a Coptic school oil on wood panel depicting cures taking place at a sacred well. It was purchased in Athens by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 and acessioned in 1931 (accession number CC 5288). The photograph was compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938

Publication/Creation

March 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:CC 5288

Notes

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.

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