Joannes Schenck à Grafenberg, aged 45, wearing a hat and a cloak with a high fur collar. Line engraving, 1644.

1644

1 print : engraving

Ioa(n)nes Schenckius à Grafenberg medicus senior. Ann. ætatis XLV At foot, four lines of Latin trochaic verse by Charles Spon: "Nulla pol tacebit aetas nominis famam tui / Docte Schencki, Pergameo plene mysta numine: / Publicam quod cervice quod rem fulcias iatricam, / Dum tot artis hinc et inde congeris magnalia" (No age indeed shall fail to utter the fame of your name, learned Schenck, priest full of the Pergamene divinity, because you sustain the yoke of public medical service as you gather from here and there so many important things related to the art of medicine). Earlier versions of the portrait (Frankfurt 1609) lack the verses, having in the that position the biographical information which is here engraved around the oval border

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2642.1

Wellcome Collection 46202i

After a painting or drawing by an unknown hand produced in 1575, when Schenck à Grafenberg was aged 45, probably at Freiburg im Breisgau, near the French border, where he was city physician