Samuel Medley (after)
N. Branwhite (engraver)
To the President, Fellows, and Corresponding Members of the Medical Society of London, This print of some of its principle Instructors is inscribed, by their obliged humble Servant, Samuel Medley
R. Wilkinson, No. 58 Cornhill, London: 1801
Black and white coppeplate engraving
20 3/4 x 24 inches, sheet
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Members of the Medical Society of London
British Engraving, 1801
British Engraving, 1801
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Portrait of the learned principal "institutors" of the Medical Society of London, seated at a desk draped with an oriental rug in a Georgian library with bookcase and library busts in the background. According to the legend on the bottom of the print, the members shown are "Edward Bancroft, Mr. Ware, Thomas Bradley, James Sims, Edward Jenner, Robert Hooper, Edward Ford, John Coakley Lettson, Mr. Blair William Babington, Joseph Hart Myers, William Woodville, Nathaniel Hulme, Sayer Walker, John Haighton, Robert John Thornton, John Shadwell, John Aikin, Sir John McNamara Hayes, Charles Combe, John Relph, and William Saunders." The seal of the Society is shown in the center lower margin. The Medical Society of London was founded in 1773 and is the predecessor of today's Royal Society of Medicine.
Samuel Medley and Nathan Cooper Branwhite were both British artists.