The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
- Glover, George, approximately 1618-
- Date:
- 1639
- Reference:
- 567562i
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Left, top to bottom: portraits purporting to represent Aesculapius, Paracelsus, Jean Fernel, Hippocrates. Right, top to bottom: portraits purporting to represent Podalirius, Avicenna, Ramon Lull, Galen. Bottom centre, John Woodall. All the figures are in 15th-17th century costume. The portraits of Woodall and Paracelsus resemble their subjects or other portraits of them, but the remainder seem to be based on portraits of other people
Publication/Creation
London (to be sold at his [Nicholas Bourne's] shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange) : Printed by Rob. Young for Nicholas Bourne, 1639.
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 24.2 x 15.8 cm
Lettering
The surgeon's mate, or military & domestique surgery ... by John Woodall m.r in chyrurgerie. ... G. Glover fecit.
Edition
State I (1639, with Rob. Young's name as printer).
References note
A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1952-1964, part 3. The reign of Charles I by M. Corbett & M. Norton, pp. 246-7, no. 61
Reference
Wellcome Collection 567562i
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