M0007319: Saint Sebastian being treated by surgeons

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Saint Sebastian being succoured by a surgeon and others. Oil

Photograph of an oil painting, after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri il Guercino, depicting surgeons treating Saint Sebastian, before restoration. The painting was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 10th January 1940 (P68/1940). Related images: V0017369, L0008720.

6 September 1940

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 10.7 x 13.2 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:44818i. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:P68/1940.

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.