Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13905

    Portrait of William Harvey

    Date
    ca. early 19th century
    Sitter
    William Harvey (1578 - 1657, British) , Physician
    Creator
    Edward Scriven (1775 - 1841, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    Charles Knight, Publisher
    After
    Peter Lely (1618 - 1680, Dutch) , Portraitist
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 125mm
    width (print): 100mm
    height (paper support): 160mm
    width (paper support): 121mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of William Harvey in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. He wears single-breasted coat with falling collar and a cap.

    Inscribed in pencil ‘W Harvey MD FRS not.’

    William Harvey (1578-1657) British physician, he was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p31.

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