M0006681: Portrait of John Ayliffe (active 1522-1550)

Date:
2 April 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/56/55
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M0006681: Portrait of John Ayliffe (active 1522-1550). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of John Aylif

Description

Photograph of an oil painting identified as depicting John Ayliffe (active 1522-1550), surgeon to King Henry VIII, in the style of Quentin Metsys, with extensive lettering, c.1540. The painting was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 21st March 1932 (CC 5986).

Publication/Creation

2 April 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:577036i. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:CC 5986

Notes

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.

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