M0016429: Portrait medals of William Harvey (1578-1657)

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Portrait medal of William Harvey by Binfield.

Photograph of two medals by Binfield commemorating William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician. One shows the obverse and one shows the reverse. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of the Blanchard Collection and accessioned in 1951 (accession numbers R160/1951 and R159/1951).

October 1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: acc. number R159/1951 and R160/1951

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.