- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a rectangular prayer card printed with a picture of Our Lady of Consolation on one side and a prayer on the reverse. [RB 23/08/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Process Printed
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 111 x 68 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2728
Search terms: Religion, Picture and Graphic Art, Amulet, Religious Object, Prayer Object
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