M0006690: Portrait of William Battie (1703-1776)

Date:
2 April 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/56/64
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M0006690: Portrait of William Battie (1703-1776). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of William Battie.

Description

Photograph of an oil painting of William Battie (1703-1776), English physician and writer of A Treatise on Madness, on mental illness. The painting was acquired at auction from Robinson & Fisher on 19th November 1925, Lot 47, accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (CC 3648) and displayed in the Wellcome Institute, but is now held by the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Publication/Creation

2 April 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:CC 3648

Notes

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.

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