Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus]. Line engraving by J. Payne after Q. Metsys.

  • Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or 1466-1530.
Date:
1600-1699
Reference:
7593i
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[London] (at ye Globe) : Are to be sould by Willia(m) Webb

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1 print : engraving

Lettering

The lively portraiture of ye most famous and profound philosopher & physitian Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast of Hohenheim who was poysned the 47th yeare of his age. Io. Payne scul.

Creator/production credits

"Payne probably did it from the engraving by P. van Sompel" (Hind, loc. cit.)

References note

A.M Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III (by M. Corbett and M. Norton), Cambridge 1964, p. 17, no. 27
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2218.1

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Wellcome Collection 7593i

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