M0002448: Portrait of Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666-1723) / M0002449: Portrait of Francis Glisson (1597-1677)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Francis Glisson, 1

2 length in oval

Left-hand side of the plate: Photograph of possibly an engraving of Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666 – 1723), Italian anatomist, profile in oval with caption uncerneath and decorative border, taken from an unidentified publication. Right-hand side of the plate: Photograph of an engraving by W. Faithorne, after a painting at the Royal College of Physicians, of Francis Glisson (1597-1677), British physician and anatomist, in oval, c.1677.

04 November 1931

3 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negative, sheet film, photographic print; range in size from 11.5 x 8.5 cm to 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 3597i

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.