A man designated as Giuliano Pollio. Chalk drawing.

1900

1 drawing

One drawing in a set of 18 decorative Italian portrait drawings which appear to have been created by the same hand, and sold in two groups by two dealers in Rome in 1932-1933 to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in London: ten from Galleria Fallani in 1932, and eight from Dr Carlo Rossi in 1933. They are pastiches in an Italian 18th-century style, probably made in the 19th or early twentieth century. The subjects are named, but the existence of the people named has not been confirmed, the orthography of their names is haphazard, and the subjects appear to be fictitious. The following (with their numbers in the Wellcome Collection catalogue) were bought from Galleria Fallani: "Lorenzo Colorigia" (1949i); "Petrus Linzago" (5864i); "Giuliano Pollio" (7911i); "Matteus Prisco" (7979i); "Franco Sormani" (8900i); "D. Michele Troja" (9268i); "D. Felice Vivenzio" (9455i); "Cav. D. Gio. Vivenzio" (9456i); "Jhoanes Jacobus Vianelli" (9416i); and one not found so far ("Giovanni Caforia") The following were bought from Dr Carlo Rossi: "Domenico Brandolin" (1363i); "Pietro Canal" (1625i); "D. Pio Panizzardi" (7588i); "Bernardo Lutio" (2065831i); and four others not found so far ("Michele Pifari speziale"; "C Averardus Domini cerusico"; "Rocco D Nicola cerusico"; "Suora Bettina infirmiera ecc.ma capa")

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2352.1

Wellcome Collection 7911i