Anthony Colley (Colly). Wash drawing en grisaille attributed to G. P. Harding.

  • Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853.
Date:
1801
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1940i
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Anthony Colley (Colly). Wash drawing en grisaille attributed to G. P. Harding. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On the left, a hand emerging from a cloud proffers a glass chemical flask. On the right are volumes of writings by iatrochemical, anatomical and medical authors: Paracelsus, Van Helmont, Bartholinus, Quercetanus (Joseph Duchesne), Oswald Croll, and Rivierius (Lazare Rivière). The names of the authors are written on the fore-edges facing towards the room

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1801

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1 drawing : brush and black ink and grey wash

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Vera et viva effigies Anthonii Colley... Med. Londinensis etat. suae 41. Nat. in anno. 1628. Medicina a medico, medela ab Altissimo.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 647.1

Reference

Wellcome Collection 1940i

Reproduction note

After an engraving by an unidentified engraver and portrait artist, ca. 1669

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