Johann Jessenius à Jessen, half-length, resting his right hand on a skull. Woodcut, 1601 [?].

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Johann Jessenius à Jessen, half-length, resting his right hand on a skull. Woodcut, 1601 [?]. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In imaginem nobiliss, & clariss, viri Iohan, Jessenis à Jessen. Verse under the portrait reads: Hoc decus, haec forma est Jesseni, digna beato, / Quod iam nulla manus pinxerit, ingenio. / Nam capit ingenuas omnes feliciter artes; / Sub medica quamvis arte latere velit. / Jacob Typotius.

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1531.2

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