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Visual Material Collection of visual material relating to the history of the College and the history of medicine in Ireland; including photographs, prints, glass lantern slides, glass plate negative and stereographs Catalogued by Harriet Wheelock February 2011, updated November 2017 ©Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 2017 Visual Material Table of Contents Visual Material ............................................................................................................... 2 Prints and Photographs.............................................................................................. 3 Photograph Albums ............................................................................................... 4 Individual Portraits ................................................................................................. 6 Group Portraits .................................................................................................. 159 Buildings and Locations ..................................................................................... 164 Others ................................................................................................................ 174 Glass Lantern Slides ............................................................................................... 176 Medical Subjects ................................................................................................ 176 People ................................................................................................................ 176 Places ................................................................................................................. 177 Glass Plate Negatives ............................................................................................. 178 1 Visual Material VM Visual Material Collection Seventeenth century - Extent: 18 boxes and albums Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: This collection contains visual materials in a number of formats collected by the College overtime, the collections includes prints, drawings and photographs which originally formed part of the Kirkpatrick Bequest. The majority of the material in the collection is of medical subjects or individuals generally with an Irish slant, however there are some items particularly in the prints, and photographs section which relate to Irish history and literature. Arrangement: The material has been divided into three sections by type; Prints and Photographs, Glass Lantern Slides; and Glass Plate Negatives. Within each section further divisions have been made as necessary. Custodial History: This material has been collected by the College over time, with no real over-arching collection aim or policy, resulting in the range of media and subjects. Over time parts of the Kirkpatrick collection have become mixed into the College's general collection of visual materials, see TPCK/5/3/8 for more details 2 Visual Material VM/1 Prints and Photographs Section 1718- Extent: 15 boxes Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: Collection of prints and photographs, mainly relating to the history of the College and the history of medicine. Arrangement: Material has been divided into five series; Photograph Albums, Individual Portraits, Group Portraits, Buildings and Locations, and Others. 3 Visual Material VM/1/1 Photograph Albums Series c.1860s- Extent: 5 items Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: Photograph albums of Presidents, Fellows and Licentiates of the College, including two albums from the 1860s and a series of three albums containing images and biographical details of the College Presidents since 1692, originally compiled by Kirkpatrick and continued by the College. VM/1/1/1 Presidents of the King and Queen's College of c.1860s Physicians Extent: 32 pages Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland Description: Photograph album contains only two photographs, of Thomas Edward Beatty and Fleetwood Churchill VM/1/1/2 Fellows and Licentiates of the King and Queen's c.1860s College of Physicians Extent: 50 pages Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland Description: Album containing carte de visite photographs of Fellows and Licentiates of the College from the 4 Visual Material [1860s], photographs cover about 15 pages and most are labelled. VM/1/1/3 Roll of Presidents Vol I - 1692-1800 1915 Extent: 50 pages Creator: Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: Roll of Presidents complied by Kirkpatrick containing images of some of the Presidents (mostly photographs of portraits) and a small piece of biographical information on all the Presidents. VM/1/1/4 Roll of Presidents Vol II - 1801-1914 1915 Extent: 1 item Creator: Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: Roll of Presidents compiled by Kirkpatrick containing images of most of the Presidents (either photographs of portraits or photographs) and a small piece of biographical information on all the Presidents. VM/1/1/5 Roll of Presidents Vol III - 1915- [twentieth century] Extent: 50 pages Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Roll of Presidents containing photographs and biographical information, entries stop in 1980 5 Visual Material VM/1/2 Individual Portraits Section 1718 - Extent: 10 boxes Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: This section contains a collection of prints and photographs of individuals, collected by the College and by Dr Kirkpatrick. Those images belonging to Kirkpatick were donated to the College with the rest of his library and archive collection following his death, but since that time they have become mixed in with the College's own collection. There is an index in the Kirkpatrick archive to his engraving and photographic collection which can be used to identify many of the items in this section as part of that collection, it also shows that not all of Kirkpatrick's collection of engravings and photographs came to the College. The subject of the prints and photographs are mainly Irish medical men, but there are also images of foreign medical men as well as other historical and literary figures, mainly of Irish interest. Arrangement: Images have been arranged alphabetically by surname, there is also a collection of unidentified photographs and engravings at the end of the collection. 6 Visual Material VM/1/2/A A Series 1747- Extent: 15 files and items Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Prints and photographs of individuals who surnames begin with A VM/1/2/A/1 John Abernethy 1828-1832 Extent: 3 items Creator: Turner, Charles, 1774-1857 Cochran, John, fl. 1821-1865 Description: Two mezzotints of Abernethy, 3/4 length seated, by Charles Turner after a portrait by Charles William Pelger (496mm x 390mm and 453mm x 335mm) Mezzotint of John Abernethy, 3/4 length standing, by John Cochran after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Printed Fisher, Son & Company, London, 1832 (275mm x185mm). VM/1/2/A/2 Rev. John Abernethy [early-mid eighteenth Extent: century] 1 print Creator: Brookes, John, fl. 1775 Description: 7 Visual Material Mezzotint of Rev. John Abernethy by John Brookes after the portrait by James Latham (308mm x 243mm) VM/1/2/A/3 Leonard Abrahamson [c.1950] Extent: 1 item Creator: Kevin McArdle, photographer Description: Black and white half length photograph of Leonard Abrahamson (160mm x117mm) VM/1/2/A/4 Robert Adams [mid- nineteenth Extent: century] 1 item Creator: Lynch, J H, [fl. mid-nineteenth century] Description: Photograph of Lynch's lithograph of Robet Admas from Catterson Smith's portrait (197mm x135mm). VM/1/2/A/5 Mark Akenside 1795 Extent: 2 items Creator: Harrison & Co, publishers, fl. late eighteenth century Worthington, William Henry, c.1790-aft.1839 Description: Line engraving of Mark Akenside by Philip Audinet, half-length profile, with a short biography from Harrison's Biographical Magazine 1 February 1795 (223mm x 128mm) 8 Visual Material [Stipple] engraving of Mark Akenside, half length profile, by William Henry Worthington after Arthur Pond (141mm x 101mm) VM/1/2/A/6 Sir Charles Aldis 1 December 1817 Extent: 1 item Creator: Wageman, Thomas Charles, 1787-1863 J Asperne, fl. early nineteenth century Description: [Stipple] engraving of Charles Aldis by T Wageman, half length profile, published by the European Magazine (206mm x 132mm) VM/1/2/A/7 Prosper Alpinus c.1750 Extent: 1 item Creator: Blockhuysen, R, fl. mid eighteenth century Description: Line engraving by Blockhuysen of Alpinus (297mm x 200mm) VM/1/2/A/8 James Apjohn [early twentieth Extent: century] 1 item Creator: Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude, 1869-1954 Description: Photograph of the portrait of James Apjohn in the National Museum in Dublin (233mmm x 278mm) VM/1/2/A/9 John Arbuthnot [early eighteenth Extent: century] 9 Visual Material 1 item Creator: Unknown Description: Line engraving of John Arbuthnot, half length (117mm x 72mm) VM/1/2/A/10 John Armstrong 1795 Extent: 2 items Creator: Harrison & Co; fl. late eighteenth century; publishers Audinet, Philip, 1766-1837 Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835 Description: Line engraving of Armstong by Philip Audinet, half length, with a short biography from Harrison's Biographical Magazine, 1795 (223mm x 127mm) Mezzotint proof of Armstrong engraved by S W Reynolds from a portrait by Sir Joshua