M0004147: Portrait of General Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: General Sir Joseph Fayrer, Surgeon (1824-1907)

Portrait of Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907), an English physician who practiced in various parts of South and South East Asia in the 1880s. He was the chairman of the Medical Board of the India Office until 1895 where he retired with the rank of surgeon-general. This original portrait is from the officers mess found in Royal Victoria Military Hospital in Netley, Hampshire.

23 January 1935

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 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 2021.

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