M0010506: Silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772) / M0010506EB: Reverse side of a silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772)

Date:: 08 March 1948

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/92/85

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0010415-M0010522WT/D/1/20/1/92
        M0010506: Silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772) / M0010506EB: Reverse side of a silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772)WT/D/1/20/1/92/85

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M0010506: Silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772) / M0010506EB: Reverse side of a silver medal showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772). Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Medal showing bust of van Swieten.

Description

Two images on one negative: the two sides of a silver medal made in 1772 by Anton Wideman showing Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772) Dutch physician. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is now held by the Science Museum (object number either A670430 or A678532).

Publication/Creation

08 March 1948

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate 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 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.