Provenance

Required, if known: 2D Objects, 3D objects, Born Digital

Definition

This element records information about the known history of an object's ownership prior to and including acquisition by Wellcome Collection.

In addition to documentation held by Wellcome Collection, provenance information can be attained from other sources on or with the work itself including collector's marks, labels, framer's labels, carrier's labels.

Content

Record information about who previously owned the object, and when and how it was acquired by Wellcome. This could include the date and place of acquisition or purchase, previous owners of the object or objects, as well as information on how they were previously used, displayed and/or collected.

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rup6krh9

The painting was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum from Foster's on 1st November 1922 as part of Lot 174. It was later accessioned by WHMM as R131/1947 on 9th May 1947.

The accession numbers may be repeated from elsewhere in the record

Sources of Information

Transcribe Wellcome

Transcribe Wellcome is a project in progress to transcribe the digitised accession registers held in the collection, detailing items that formed part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Wellcome Historical Medical Library. The transcribed entries in QuickBase are a great resource for checking what provenance details are held for items on entry to the collection. Even if the entry has not been digitised for the item you are cataloguing, it will still take you to the relevant page in the digitised register where you can look up information.

The database can be accessed here: https://wellcome.quickbase.com/db/bqg7rhzs8