M0006408: Portrait of Professor John Playfair (1748-1819)

Stipple engraving of Professor John Playfair (1748-1819), Church of Scotland minister and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, by James Thomson in 1819. Related images: V0004707

13 October 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 7885i

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.

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