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

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

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.

20 June 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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

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.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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