Votive offerings and marble church plates offering thanks: includes offerings shaped like body parts, hearts and an agnus dei image. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).

1920

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 11.4 x 17.9 cm

Votive offerings and church marble plates - thanksgivings for recovery or prayers answered. a. Mother-of-pearl offering for desired cure. b. metal heart offering for cure. c. Agnus-Dei, XVIIth century - with figures on each side, surrounded with relics. Source: Mortillet collection [...] Lettering in ink on photograph provides key for describing offerings on right-hand side

Wellcome Collection 578401i