M0002454: Portrait of Thomas Parr (1483-1635); M0002455: Portrait of Henry Jenkins (1501-1670)

Left-hand side of the plate: Photograph of an engraving of Thomas Parr (1483-1635), in oval with caption underneath. Right-hand side of the plate: Photograph of an engraving of Henry Jenkins (1501-1670), in oval with caption underneath. Both images were taken from Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, Some medical aspects of old age: being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge; London : Macmillan, 1922.

04 November 1931

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.