M0000757: Woodcut of Galen of Pergamon (129-c.200), Roman physician and surgeon / M0000758: Portrait of Rufus of Epheus, from Zsamboki: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones (1603)

Date:: 09 May 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/7/61

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        M0000757: Woodcut of Galen of Pergamon (129-c.200), Roman physician and surgeon / M0000758: Portrait of Rufus of Epheus, from Zsamboki: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones (1603)WT/D/1/20/1/7/61

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M0000757: Woodcut of Galen of Pergamon (129-c.200), Roman physician and surgeon / M0000758: Portrait of Rufus of Epheus, from Zsamboki: <i>Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones</i> (1603). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Head 3/4 right.

Description

Two portraits on one negative: Woodcut of Aelius Galenus (129-c.200), Roman physician also known as Claudius Galenus and often Anglicised as Galen of Pergamon. Portrait of Rufus of Epheus (fl. late first and early 2nd centuries AD) Greek physician reproduced in Zsamboki, Janos: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones, ([Leyden]: Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1603). Related images: M0008689

Publication/Creation

09 May 1930

Physical description

3 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 16.5 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/D/5742

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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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Physicians

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