The people of Lyons receiving deliverance from the plague. Watercolour by A. Terzi, 1904, after a relief carved in wood.

1904

1 painting : watercolour ; image 21.2 x 37 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/7/88

Typed label on mount reads: "A commemoration of the deliverance of Lyons from plague. 15th century. The original is carved in wood."

Wellcome Collection 10112i

The subject is described in a letter, dated 20 April 1904, to Henry S. Wellcome from Louis Sambon, "... in the Palais St. Pierre (Museum of Antiquities) I found a most interesting and magnificent high relief in painted wood representing an invocation of the clergy and people for delivery from the plague. .... and Terzi has made a very good drawing of it ..."