M0006597: Portrait of Richard Mead (1673-1754)

Portrait of Richard Mead (1673-1754), English physician, holding a copy of his work A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720).

01 March 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 582131i

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.

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