M0000958: Portrait of Captain James Weddell (1787-1834)

Oil painting on ivory panel of James Weddell (1787-1834), British sailor and navigator by P.G. Dodd in 1828. The item was part of a polar exhibition held in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's central hall in July 1930.

29 July 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.