Portrait of Girolamo Fabricio
Date
1630
Sitter
Girolamo Fabricio (1533 - 1619, Italian) , Physician
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of Girolamo Fabricio, wearing a dark coat and cap, with a white collar and a chain of office. Turned to the right as viewed, looking directly to the viewer. Within an oval frame.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.75, as Weld’s text refers to the state of medical science in the early modern period, and the gruesome surgical techniques of Fabricius of Acquapendente.
Inscribed below: ‘HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE AE QUES MEDICUS ET ANATOMICUS’.
Girolamo Fabricio (1533-1619) Italian physician and anatomist. Also known in the Latin form, Hieronymus Fabricius.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.75, as Weld’s text refers to the state of medical science in the early modern period, and the gruesome surgical techniques of Fabricius of Acquapendente.
Inscribed below: ‘HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE AE QUES MEDICUS ET ANATOMICUS’.
Girolamo Fabricio (1533-1619) Italian physician and anatomist. Also known in the Latin form, Hieronymus Fabricius.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 1... (London, John W. Parker, 1848) grangerized by the writer and collector Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847–1916) into 8 volumes, adding illustrative material and manuscript items to Weld's text. The books were initially owned by Ludwig Mond FRS (1839–1909), and according to an inscription by his son Robert Ludwig Mond FRS (1867–1938) they were intended for presentation to the Society. This eventually happened in late 1959, the donor being the politician Harry Nathan (1889–1963), Lord Nathan of Churt.
Related fellows
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
Associated place