Scottish surgeon and Radical politician (1777-1855)

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Joseph Hume. Engraving by F. Bacon after G. P. A. Healy.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving.

Joseph Hume. Lithograph.

Joseph Hume. Line engraving by R. Newton, 1821, after W. J. Newton.

Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

Dressed as a beadle Joseph Hume kicks over a basket containing oranges, the wares of the Duke of Cumberland who is dressed as a female street seller. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving, 1828.

Joseph Hume. Wood engraving by [T. G.], 1855.

Joseph Hume. Lithograph, 1843.

Joseph Hume. Lithograph by G. B. Black, 1851, after J. E. Mayall.

Joseph Hume. Mezzotint by T. Hodgetts, 1823, after J. Graham.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving, 1838.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving, 1823.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1840, after G. P. A. Healy.

King William IV as Gilpin rides a horse past the inn at Edmonton followed by two men on galloping horses. Lithograph, 1831.

Observations on the means of preserving the health of troops, by selecting healthy localities for their cantonments / by Edward Balfour ; read by Joseph Hume ... before the Statistical Society of London, on the 19th of May 1845.

Observations on the means of forming and maintaining troops in health in different climates and localities / by Edward Balfour.

On the influence exercised by trees on the climate of a country : being reports to the Madras Government / by Edward Balfour, William Cullen and Charles J. Smith.

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Joseph Hume

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Images featuring Joseph Hume

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Observations on the means of preserving the health of troops, by selecting healthy localities for their cantonments / by Edward Balfour ; read by Joseph Hume ... before the Statistical Society of London, on the 19th of May 1845.

Observations on the means of forming and maintaining troops in health in different climates and localities / by Edward Balfour.

On the influence exercised by trees on the climate of a country : being reports to the Madras Government / by Edward Balfour, William Cullen and Charles J. Smith.

Frequent collaborators

Joseph Hume

Images from the collections

Images featuring Joseph Hume

Works from the collections

Observations on the means of preserving the health of troops, by selecting healthy localities for their cantonments / by Edward Balfour ; read by Joseph Hume ... before the Statistical Society of London, on the 19th of May 1845.

Observations on the means of forming and maintaining troops in health in different climates and localities / by Edward Balfour.

On the influence exercised by trees on the climate of a country : being reports to the Madras Government / by Edward Balfour, William Cullen and Charles J. Smith.

Frequent collaborators

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