Part 5

DOCTOR WILLIAM + HARVEY + DECEASED + THE + 3 + OF + JUNE + 1657 + AGED + 79 + YEARS.

The leaden shell with its contents was deposited in the marble sarcophagus provided by the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke’s Day 1883.

The photograph from which the collotype was made was kindly sent by Mr. Willoughby Arthur Blackstone, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS

The British Museum Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, by Freeman O’Donoghue, F.S.A. (Lond. 1910, vol. ii, p. 459), gives a list of the Engraved Portraits of William Harvey, which has been enlarged by Mr. Sidney H. Badcock, who has made a special study of the Harvey Engravings.

1. H.L. to R. in gown; oval frame with ornaments. Plate to Birch’s heads. Pub. Knapton, 1739, from the picture ‘in the collection of Dr. Mead’.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, J. Houbraken.

Line, 14⅛ x 8¾ in.

One proof with artist’s name only; two lettered impressions. In the first edition the portrait has a very narrow margin. A few copies were published in parts with a wider margin. The plate was also published as a proof before letters, a proof with letters and a wide margin, and it was issued in both states on India paper. It was re-cut for the fourth edition of Birch published in 1813 with a margin of 2-2½ inches.

2. A copy of the last with the ornaments; reversed and a square frame added to enclose the whole picture. Pub. G. Kearsly, 1777. From the Copper-plate Magazine.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, T. Cook.

Line, 5⅞ x 4⅜ in.

3. Another copy with the ornaments; reversed. Plate to Universal Magazine. Pub. J. Hinton.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, Anon.

Line, 6¼ x 4 in.

4. Another copy to L., nearly full face; in Doctor’s gown and collar with the strings tied: in an oval frame resting on a pedestal lettered ‘William Harvey M.D.’

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, T. Cook.

Line, 5½ x 3⅝ in.

5. Another copy, bust only to R.; oval, at head of an account of him. Plate to Biographical Magazine. Pub. Harrison & Co., 1795.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, P. Audinet.

Line, 1⅞ x 1½ in.

6. Another copy, bust only to L.; without background; four Latin lines below.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, Anon.

Line.

7. Nearly W.L. to R. seated, in gown, hat in r. hand. From the picture at the College of Physicians of London. Frontispiece to his Opera Omnia, 1766. Corn. Jonson, pinxt.

Painter, C. Janssen. Engraver, J. Hall.

Line, 7⅝ x 6⅜ in.

8. Similar to the last but reversed.