M0008882: Portrait of an old woman, originally thought to be Florence Nightingale

Oil painting of a woman thought to be Florence Nightingale when it was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1936. The item was accessioned in 1941 (accession number P65/1941)

04 June 1943

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession record listing the item in the glass plate negative: accession number P65/1941 (image 100).

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.

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