A plant (Cotyledon africana): flowering stem, with coat of arms of the dedicatee. Colour mezzotint by E. Kirkall, c.1728, after J. van Huysum.

  • Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740.
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[1728]
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20493i
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A plant (Cotyledon africana): flowering stem, with coat of arms of the dedicatee. Colour mezzotint by E. Kirkall, c.1728, after J. van Huysum. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London], [1728]

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1 print : mezzotint, printed in colour ; platemark 37.6 x 25 cm

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Cotyledon africana, frutescens; foliis asperis, angustis, acuminatis; flore virescente. Van Huysum pinxt. E. Kirkall fect. Petro St. Hill, chirurgo ad nosocomium S.ti Bartholomaei Lock dictum.

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Wellcome Collection 20493i

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The dedicatee Peter St. Hill was a surgeon at one of the two Lock Hospitals operated by St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, before they both closed in 1760: one was at Kingsland, Balls Pond Road, Islington, and the other was in Kent Street, Southwark, on the subsequent site of Great Dover Street (D.I. Williams, The London Lock, London 19--, pp. 8-9)

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