Mathieu de L'Obel. Pen drawing by J. Brand, 1793, after F. Delaram, 1615.

  • Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 1590-1627.
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1793
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5943i
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The oval portrait is set in a baroque monument with a pediment at the top, on each side of which is seated a putto with a cornucopia, the cornucopia on the left containing vegetables and the one on the right containing fruits

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1793

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Matthias de Lobel medicus & botanographus insulanus anno reparatae Salutis 1615 aetatis 76. Candore et spe. Melius a limpidissimis fontium scaturiginibus haurire quam turbidos consectari rivulos. Jul. Presentem monstrat quaelibet herba Deum. Francisc. Dellarame fecit. et sculp. anno 1615 "Insulanus": born in Lille. "Jul.": unidentified. Possibly "Tul." referring to M. Tullius Cicero, and a sentence in his De oratore II.27.117 "tardi ingeni est rivulos consectari, fontis rerum non videre"

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1792.1

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Wellcome Collection 5943i

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