M0000851: William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation before King Charles I

Date:: 28 July 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/8/38

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0000810-M0000918WT/D/1/20/1/8
        M0000851: William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation before King Charles IWT/D/1/20/1/8/38

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M0000851: William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation before King Charles I. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation of th

Description

Oil painting by Ernest Board depicting William Harvey (1578-1657), English physician, demonstrating his theory of circulation of the blood before King Charles I of England and Scotland. The painting is possibly one of several commissioned by Sir Henry Wellcome for the Wellcome Gallery of Portraits in 1912. Related images: V0018138

Publication/Creation

28 July 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 45902i

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.

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