M0008818: Portrait of Jan de Doot (fl. 1655)

Date:
February 1943
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/77/30
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Credit

M0008818: Portrait of Jan de Doot (fl. 1655). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of a painting of Jan de Doot (fl.1655) Dutch blacksmith, painted in 1655 by Carel van Savoyen. De Doot is said to have successfully performed a lithotomy on himself in 1651. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an exhibition held as part of the International Congress for the History of Medicine 1927. The photograph was accessioned by the Museum in 1929 (accession number PHO 304)

Publication/Creation

February 1943

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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