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Description: | The portraits in the Wellcome Library do not form a single discrete collection: they are dispersed over several distinct collections, as follows (numbers include British and non-British unless otherwise indicated):
1. Archives and manuscripts. Portraits in this collection are mainly photographs.
2. Iconographic collections. Portrait prints (possibly about 15,000, of which about 9,000 are catalogued, and of which in turn about 3,500 are British); Portrait paintings (approx. 650); Portrait drawings (approx. 300); Portrait photographs (possibly 6,000, of which 3,000 catalogued); portrait sculpture (31).
3. Rare books (about 3,000 books containing unknown number of portraits, plus runs of periodicals)
4. Medical and History of medicine collections (books, periodicals and ephemera). In these collections, the number of book illustrations that are portraits is over 10,000; Wellcome Library | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0207 611 8369 | Telephone: | 0207 611 8722 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8721 | Go to resource |
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