M0000544: Portrait of William Harvey (1578-1657)

Date:
October 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/5/97
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon

Description

Oil painting of William Harvey (1578-1657) English surgeon at the age of 72, possibly by Govaert Flinck. The painting was purchased and accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 (accession number CC 4921)

Publication/Creation

October 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item acc. number CC 4921 (image 38)

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.

Terms of use

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

Subjects

Where to find it

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