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Photo-sc., 3 x 3¼ in.

28. Three-quarter length to R., standing, in gown, left hand on diagram of arterial system; apparatus, shelves, and books in the background.

Painter, (?).

Process block, 6¼ x 5 in.

Presented to members of the Historical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Nov. 1912. See also Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of History), 1912, vi, p. 31, Pl. II.

29. Bust to L., in doctor’s gown. The base of the pedestal inscribed ‘Guil. Harvei illus.’

Etching, 2⅞ x 2⅝ in.

30. Bust to R.

W. Read, sc.

Engraving, 6¼ x 4⅛ in.

31. Bust to L. The medal of the Edinburgh Hunterian Society with the lettering ‘In Gul. Harvei honorem MDCCLXXXII’.

Etching, 2 x 1⅜ in.

32. Bust to R., in doctor’s gown, with wide lace collar and strings untied. Pub. by C. Forster in the Literary Magazine and British Review, 1790.

Painter, Bemmel, Sculpt., Blackberd.

Line, 7 x 4½ in.

33. Bust to R. as in No. 32. Pub. by J. Robins, 1830.

Painter, Bemmel. Engraver, J. Thomson.

Stipple, 7½ x 4½ in.

34. Bust to L., nearly full face, in doctor’s gown with collar and strings tied, in an oval resting on a block which is lettered ‘William Harvey M.D.’ No name of painter or engraver.

Line, 5⅞ x 3⅞ in.

35. Bust to L., surtout buttoned, plain linen collar, no tassels, skull-cap. Lettered ‘W. Harvey M.D.’ Pub. by C. Knight in Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, vol. vii, 1846.

Etching, 3½ x 2½ in.

36. ‘Harvey demonstrating to Charles Ist his theory of the Circulation of the Blood.’ From a painting by R. Hannah. Line engraving by H. Leman. Pub. Messrs. Lloyd Bros. & Co., 22 Ludgate Hill, 1851. (See the Lancet, 1851, i, p. 382.) Fanciful.

37. ‘Harvey with the two children of Charles 1st at the battle of Edgehill 1642.’ Fanciful.

W. F. Yeames, R.A., pinxt. H. Dixon, photo.

Frontispiece to Dr. John W. Ogle’s Harveian Oration for 1881.

38. Bust to L., surtout buttoned with plain white falling collar: no tassels: no skull-cap. From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Pub. for G. Moreton, 42 Burgate Street, Canterbury, 1894.

Photogravure, 5½ x 3¾ in.

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