M0000747: Portraits of John Caius (1510-1573) and Thomas Linacre (1460-1524)

Date:
09 May 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/7/55
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M0000747: Portraits of John Caius (1510-1573) and Thomas Linacre (1460-1524). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of John Caius, 16thC

Description

Reproduction of two oil paintings, one of John Caius (1510-1573), English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and one of Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), English humanist scholar and physician . The portraits are reproduced in Osler, William, Sir: The evolution of modern medicine : a series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in April, 1913, New Haven : Yale University Press, 1921.

Please note that only the portrait of John Caius was digitised as part of the "M series" images. A digitised version of the portrait of Thomas Lineacre was digitised as image L0001747

Publication/Creation

09 May 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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