The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

  • Glover, George, approximately 1618-
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1639
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567562i
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The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Left, top to bottom: portraits purporting to represent Aesculapius, Paracelsus, Jean Fernel, Hippocrates. Right, top to bottom: portraits purporting to represent Podalirius, Avicenna, Ramon Lull, Galen. Bottom centre, John Woodall. All the figures are in 15th-17th century costume. The portraits of Woodall and Paracelsus resemble their subjects or other portraits of them, but the remainder seem to be based on portraits of other people

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London (to be sold at his [Nicholas Bourne's] shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange) : Printed by Rob. Young for Nicholas Bourne, 1639.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 24.2 x 15.8 cm

Lettering

The surgeon's mate, or military & domestique surgery ... by John Woodall m.r in chyrurgerie. ... G. Glover fecit.

Edition

State I (1639, with Rob. Young's name as printer).

References note

A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1952-1964, part 3. The reign of Charles I by M. Corbett & M. Norton, pp. 246-7, no. 61

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Wellcome Collection 567562i

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