M0002454: Portrait of Thomas Parr (1483-1635); M0002455: Portrait of Henry Jenkins (1501-1670)

Date:
04 November 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/21/2
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Left-hand side of the plate: Photograph of an engraving of Thomas Parr (1483-1635), in oval with caption underneath. Right-hand side of the plate: Photograph of an engraving of Henry Jenkins (1501-1670), in oval with caption underneath. Both images were taken from Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, Some medical aspects of old age: being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge; London : Macmillan, 1922.

Publication/Creation

04 November 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

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