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Mark Akenside

English poet and physician

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Images from the collections

Images by Mark Akenside

2 images from works
  • The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.
  • Opera omnia / a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita.

Images featuring Mark Akenside

29 images from works
  • Mark Akenside. Line engraving by Kirkwood & sons.
  • Mark Akenside. Stipple engraving by J. White, 1837, after A. Pond.
  • Mark Akenside. Mezzotint by E. Fisher, 1772, after A. Pond, 1754.
  • Mark Akenside. Stipple engraving by J. White after A. Pond.
  • Mark Akenside. Line engraving by Cook.
  • Saint Thomas's Hospital, Southwark: the courtyard, with portraits of Mark Akenside, Richard Mead and William Cheselden. Oil painting.
  • Mark Akenside. Line engraving by J. H. Robinson, 1835, after A. Pond.
  • Mark Akenside. Line engraving by W. Angus.
  • Mark Akenside. Mezzotint by E. Fisher, 1772, after A. Pond, 1754.
  • Saint Thomas's Hospital, Southwark: the courtyard, with portraits of Mark Akenside, Richard Mead and William Cheselden. Oil painting.

Works from the collections

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14 works

    • Books

    Opera omnia / a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita.

    Harvey, William, 1578-1657. | Date: 1766
    • Books

    Notes on the postscript to a pamphlet intitled: "Observations anatomical and physiological, etc. by Alexander Monro, Junior, M.D. Edinburgh, August, M,DCCC,LVIII." / [Mark Akenside].

    Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770 | Date: 1758
    • Books
    • Online

    The works of Mark Akenside, M.D. in verse and prose : with his life, a fac simile of his hand-writing, and an essay on the first poem. / by Mrs. Barbauld.

    Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. | Date: 1808
    • Books

    The pleasures of imagination; a poem, in three books / By Dr. Akenside. To which is added, The art of preserving health; a poem, in three books. By Dr. Armstrong.

    Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770. | Date: 1795
    • Books
    • Online

    Oratio anniversaria, quam ex Harveii instituto in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis die Octobris 18 a MDCCLIX / habuit M. Akenside.

    Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770 | Date: 1760

Frequent collaborators

Royal College of Physicians, London

Related topics

History, 18th Century

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