M0011292: Portrait of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

Photograph of an oil painting by Gainsborough of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814) American-British physician and inventor. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 2856)

1950

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2021.

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