Franco Sormani. Chalk drawing.

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Franco Sormani. Chalk drawing. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Franco Sormani medico e fisico

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One drawing in a set of portrait drawings in the Wellcome Collection which may have been created, sold, and acquired as a group. Their provenance is currently unknown. They are in an Italian 18th-century style, but their actual date is unknown. The existence of some of the people named has not been confirmed: the portraits may have been made for purely decorative purposes. Their names and Wellcome catalogue numbers are as follows: Domenico Brandolin (1363i), Pietro Canal (1625i), Lorenzo Colorigia (1949i), Petrus Linzago (5864i), D. Pio Panizzardi (7588i), Giuliano Pollio (7911i), Matteus Prisco (7979i), Franco Sormani (8900i), D. Michele Troja (9268i), D. Felice Vivenzio (9455i), Cav. D. Gio. Vivenzio (9456i), Jhoanes Jacobus Vianelli (9416i), Bernardo Lutio (2065831i), and possibly others

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2784.1

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Wellcome Collection 8900i

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