M0006321: Statue of Hygeia standing, holding snake and bowl out before her.

Date:: 20 June 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/53/2

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0006320-M0006419WT/D/1/20/1/53
        M0006321: Statue of Hygeia standing, holding snake and bowl out before her.WT/D/1/20/1/53/2

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M0006321: Statue of Hygeia standing, holding snake and bowl out before her. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Statue of Hygeia standing, holding snake and bowl out before her.

Description

Cast of an original statue held in the Louvre Museum, France. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, accessioned in 1935 (accession number 42/1935) and put on display, but is not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph of the statue was taken to be used as an illustration in medical diaries produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Publication/Creation

20 June 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the photograph depicted in the glass plate negative: WA/PHO/Hmm/2

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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 2020.

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

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