Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Person

Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886

Images

  • A young woman has decided to leave home and her cases are waiting by the door as the young man points to her way out. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.
  • Hicks Hall, Session House, Clerkenwell: a man is recognized outside the court. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1841.
  • A room is full of broken furniture and a young couple are arguing. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.
  • Sylvester Sound aiming a pistol at a broken mirror. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.
  • Policemen entering the study of a medical student in search of thieves shoot at a pair of skeletons by mistake Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.
All images (10)

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Hicks Hall, Session House, Clerkenwell: a man is recognized outside the court. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1841.

    Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886. | Date: [1841] | Reference: 35898i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    After his honeymooon, a newly married man becomes disenchanted with his new wife and goes out drinking in his club with an old male friend. Aquatint by C. Hunt after T. Onwhyn.

    Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886 | Date: 1853 | Reference: 28556i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young man who is a somnambulist sleepwalks to the garden of a parson and sits on the wall eating peaches, to the annoyance of the gardener and the proprietor. Etching by T. Onwhyn.

    Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886. | Date: [1844] | Reference: 29460i
    • Books
    • Online

    Pleasures of the water cure / by a patient who has been well drench'd and wrench'd and restored to health.

    Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886. | Date: [1860]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Sylvester Sound aiming a pistol at a broken mirror. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.

    Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886. | Date: [1844] | Reference: 34651i
All works (13)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence