M0012625: Portrait of Richard Russell (1687-1759)

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Richard Russell: "Sea-bathing Russell"

Photograph of a watercolour painting by Henry Wilkin after Benjamin Wilson of Richard Russell (1687-1759), a British physician famous for encouraging his patients to bathe in and drink sea water as a form of treatment, c.1755. The painting was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PD 83-3-13).

July 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:38613i

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 2022.

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