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

[London] (at ye Globe) : Are to be sould by Willia(m) Webb

1 print : engraving

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.

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

Wellcome Collection 7593i

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