M0019147: Portrait of a man thought ot be Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (?)

Oil painting on wood of a man thought to be Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English polymath. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1923 and accessioned in 1962 (accession number P183/1962)

August 1962

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 578574i

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.