M0011895: Reproduction of an oil painting portrait of William Hunter (1718-1783), Scottish anatomist and physician, in his study

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Photograph of oil painting: portrait of William Hunter in his study.

Reproduction (photograph) of an oil painting portrait of William Hunter (1718-1783), Scottish anatomist and physician, in his study. The original oil painting is attributed to R. Hamer [although it is not listed in Benezit Dictionary of Artists], and probably based on the engraving by T. Thomson after the portrait now in the Royal College of Physicians, attributed to Robert Edge Pine. The reproduction was acquired for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1936 is from a photograph lent by Professor John Fulton, Yale University.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: accession number PHO 7341.

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 2022.

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