Thomas Dowland, botanist and student in astrology. Oil painting by J. Bowring.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 44.5 x 35.3 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/56/82

A mirror for medicine: some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library, London: Wellcome Institute, 1989, frontispiece and pp. 32-33

London's pride : the glorious history of the capital's gardens, London: Anaya, p. 39

Daniel J. Boorstin, The discoverers, New York: Abrams, 1991, vol. 2, p. 533

Zoë Capernaros, 'At face value? Thomas Dowland's portrait', European Journal of herbal medicine, 1995, 2: 49-51

Michael Archer, Delftware: the tin-glaglazed earthenware of the British Isles: a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The Stationery Office, 1997, p. 379

Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 111

Wellcome Collection 45605i