M0012921: Portrait of Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539-1583)

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Portrait of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Photograph of a painting of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539-1583), English explorer, reproduced from a copy of Tension, E.M.: Elizabethan England, Vol III, 1933, held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The painting was owned by Commander Waler Raleigh Gilbert in 1933.

April 1953

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 2022.

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