The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all well with you?” “How can it be where the whole state is full of strife and I myself am still in the deep sea.”) The hands are singularly delicate and are most beautifully painted with much character. I do not know what the herb is which he holds in his left hand. The armorial bearings are those usually assigned to the Harvey family but they do not seem to have been assumed until after the Restoration in 1660 when Harvey had been dead for some years. To make the arms individual to William Harvey it looks as if the stemma had been painted in at a later period and had replaced some other crest. The other pleasing portrait of Harvey is at King’s Weston House near Bristol in Gloucestershire. It is let into the wall and represents Harvey as a very old man with a small, oval face, hollow-cheeked and wide-browed. The face is deeply lined, the eyes are sunken and the whole expression is one of fatigue. This I think was done designedly and was probably the expression which would best be remembered by the great-niece for whom the picture was painted. The whole Harvey family were by nature very united and fond of each other and she would remember her great-uncle—the distinguished London physician— only as a sad and very old man with beautiful hands. The picture is attributed to Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) but it is not signed. There remains yet another picture but it is memo¬ rial and does not pretend to be more than a memorial.
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