John Freind. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1730, after M. Dahl, 1725.

1730

1 print : engraving

Johannes Freind M.D. serenissimae reginae Carolinae archiatrus. Cui suas artes, sua dona laetus / Et lyram et venae salientis ictum / Scire concessit celerem et medendi / Delius usum. M. Dhal [sic] pinx. G. Vertue sculpsit 1730 Translation of lettering: John Freind M.D. principal physician to Queen Caroline. To whom the Delian [i.e. Apollo] gladly gave his own arts, his own gifts: knowledge of the lyre, and of the beat of the leaping vein [i.e. the pulse], and the quick practice of healing

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1041.1

Wellcome Collection 3256i