Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10082
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Portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse
Date
1801
Sitter
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754 - 1846, American) , Physician
Creator
Richard Reeve (1780, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X237/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 268mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse, oval, half-facing to the right as viewed, his hair gathered in a queue.
Plate 4 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “R. Reeve sc. B. Waterhouse, M.D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.”
Benjamin Waterhouse was a Professor of Harvard Medical School and was notable for introducing Jenner’s method of vaccination into the Unites States. He was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Plate 4 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “R. Reeve sc. B. Waterhouse, M.D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.”
Benjamin Waterhouse was a Professor of Harvard Medical School and was notable for introducing Jenner’s method of vaccination into the Unites States. He was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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