M0000757: Woodcut of Galen of Pergamon (129-c.200), Roman physician and surgeon / M0000758: Portrait of Rufus of Epheus, from Zsamboki: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones (1603)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Head 3/4 right.

Two portraits on one negative: Woodcut of Aelius Galenus (129-c.200), Roman physician also known as Claudius Galenus and often Anglicised as Galen of Pergamon. Portrait of Rufus of Epheus (fl. late first and early 2nd centuries AD) Greek physician reproduced in Zsamboki, Janos: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones, ([Leyden]: Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1603). Related images: M0008689

09 May 1930

3 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 16.5 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/D/5742

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.