Page 1 of 9 Collection Summary Title Fenwick Beekman Image Collection Date Span cc. 1750-1930 Collection Size 47 items Repository New York Academy of Medicine Library Biographical Note Historical Statement Dr. Fenwick Beekman (1882-1962) was a distinguished surgeon and New York native. He attended Columbia University and received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907. Later he served as head of child surgery at Bellevue Hospital. He went on to become a founding member of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. A historian as well, he wrote about 18th-century British surgeon John Hunter and owned a collection of materials related to him. Dr. Beekman served as the 23rd president of the New York Historical Society from 1947 to 1956. In 1952 he retired from active practice. Prior to his passing in 1962, he donated his collection of Hunter materials to the New York Academy of Medicine. Collection Description Scope and Content The collection is primarily made up of images related to Dr. John Hunter, including reprinted portraits of Hunter, his associates, and protégés. The collection also contains a hand-drawn ground plan for Dr. Hunter’s home and several maps. There are numerous cartoons by English and French artists which can be dated from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. The Beekman Collection also contains several photostats related to Bellevue Hospital where Dr. Beekman served as head of child surgery. Arrangement of the Collection The collection is arranged in a series of 7 folders, each containing between 2 and 24 items. Administrative Info Preferred Citation The Fenwick Image Beekman Collection. The Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine. Provenance Dr. Fenwick Beekman donated his collection to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1960. Page 2 of 9 Additional Resources The Beekman Collection also contains an additional uncataloged archival box containing fifty-seven prints and one slide with engraved, lithographed and photographic portraits of physicians and scientists. These date to from the 18th-20th century and feature Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, John Hunter, Hippocrates, and many others. Collection Contents Container Description Folder A Hogarth’s Stages of Cruelty (4 items) Folder B Hogarth’s Times a Day (3 items) Folder C Portraits (8 items) Folder D Drawings and Cartoons of Physicians (3 items) Folder E Architectural Drawings (2 items) Folder F Benjamin Franklin’s Letter/St. Thomas’s Hospital (2 items) Folder G Photos and Photostats; Negatives (25 items) The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 3 of 9 Folder Item ID Title Artist(s)/Author(s) Date Cataloged Catalog Reference Number A1 Engraving, First William Hogarth 1751 No Reference Stage of Cruelty A2 Engraving, William Hogarth 1751 No Reference Second Stage of A – Cruelty Hogarth’s A3 Engraving, William Hogarth 1751 No Reference Stages of Cruelty in Cruelty Perfection A4 Engraving, The William Hogarth 1751 No Reference Reward for Cruelty B1 Engraving, Times William Hogarth 1738 No Reference of the Day: (Published) B - Morning Hogarth’s B2 Engraving, Times William Hogarth 1738 No Reference Four Times of the Day: (Published) of Day Evening B3 Engraving, Times B. Baron 1738 No Reference of the Day: Night (Published) C1 Engraving, C.H. Jeens No Professor Richard Owen C2 Engraving, John Joshua Reynolds 1814 No Hunter (Painting), J. C - Portraits Jackson (Drawing), R. Cooper (Engraving) C3 Engraving, Sir Thomas Lawrence 1830 Astley Paston (Painting), Samuel Cooper Bar Cousins (Engraving) The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 4 of 9 C4 Engraving, I. Wandelaar, I. 18th c. Reference Hermannus Houbraken Boerhaave (Sculptor) C5 Mezzotint, Thomas Hamilton 1900 No Reference Joseph Lister Crawford C - Portraits C6 Engraving, John Joshua Reynolds 1836 No Reference Hunter (Painting), W.O. Geller (Engraving) C7 Photograph of Titian (Portrait) No Portrait, Vesalius C8 Print of Painting, Original by Thomas 1889 No Reference The Agnew Clinic Eakins D2 Drawing, Prêtre Jacques Grasset de 1796 No Reference, Médecin de la Saint-Sauveur and Reference Terre de Feu J. Laroque (Medicine Man of (sculptor) Tierra del Fuego) D – D3 Engraving, Sept French School, (19th 1900s No Reference Drawings Contre Un, Ou Le century) and Comité De La Cartoons of Vaccine (Seven Physicians Against one, or the Vaccine Committee) D4 Pencil Sketch, William Sharp 1930s No Reference Men in White E1 Drawing, (Copy of William Clift 1832 No original) Ground E – Plan of Dr. Architectural Hunter’s Premisis Drawings [sic], level with Street or Parlour – Floor Level The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 5 of 9 E2 Drawing, (Copy of Copy of William 1935 No William Clift) Clift E – Ground Plan of Architectural Dr. Hunter’s Drawings Premisis [sic], level with Street or Parlour – Floor Level F1 A Letter on Benjamin Franklin 1934 Yes 260593 Cataloged Catheters: and Edward Written by Loughborough Benjamin Keyes Franklin to his brother John … With a comment F – by Edward Franklin’s Loughborough Letter, St. Keyes Thomas’s F2 Engraving, Old St. William Henry 1739 No Reference Hospital Thomas’s Toms Hospital, Southwark: a bird’s-eye view looking east over the three courtyards G1 Photostat of New York Hospital 1817 No diploma for John G – Photos P. Cox and G2-G2i Photostat, First Bellevue Hospital 1861 No Reference Photostats; Annual Medical College Negatives Announcement and Circular of the Bellevue The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 6 of 9 Hospital and Medical College, 1861-‘62 G3 Photostat, Line No Drawing Showing Bellevue G4 Photostat, 1864 No Reference Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York G5 Negative, Pitcher H.E.H 1899 No Reference, “Alms House” Reference (Bellevue) G – Photos G6 Negative, Platter H.E.H 1899 No Reference, and “Alms House” Reference Photostats; (Bellevue) Negatives G7 Lithograph, Alms Sarony & Major, 1826 No Reference House Hospital N.Y. (Bellevue) G8 Negative, 1849 No Reference Bellevue Hospital G9-G9c Photostat New York Public Negative, Map of Library Scotland (Incomplete) G10a-G10i Article, The Warren R. Dawson 1932 No Reference Earliest Surgical Treatise G11a-G11c Article, Some Sir D’Arcy Power 1933 No Reference Early Surgical Cases (Part I) G12a-G12b Article, Some Sir D’Arcy Power 1933 No Reference Early Surgical Cases (Part II) The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 7 of 9 G13 Photostat, Typed John Hunter transcription of Letter to the Earl of B from John Hunter G13a Autograph letter John Hunter 1778 Yes Folio Hunter Photostat in G signed, addressed Beekman folder / Folio to the Earl of B., Hunter discussing right- Beekman handedness in (original) animals G14 Photostat negative, Letter: G – Photos “My Lord, I take and the liberty to Photostats; throw myself Negatives upon your favour. .” G15 Photostat, 1768 Invitation to vote in the election of a surgeon to St Georges Hospital G16a-G16b Photostat, Letter Addressed to Doctor John Hunter, January 1763 G17 Rubbing of John James Luke 1859 Yes Photostat of Hunter’s coffin- note on verso plate of rubbing in G folder / Folio Hunter The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 8 of 9 Beekman (original) G18a-G18b Photostat, Report John Hunter 1763 of bread delivered to the hospital at Lisbon G19 Autograph letter John Hunter 1763 Yes Photostat in G signed, addressed folder / Folio to a colleague Hunter concerning a Beekman patient (original) G20 Photostat, The The Morning 1787 Morning Herald, Herald Advertisement G – Photos for a lecture and given by John Photostats; Hunter Negatives G21 Autographed John Hunter 1762 Yes Photostat in G letter signed, folder / Folio addressed to Hunter John Campbell, Beekman Earl of Loudoun, (original) asking for a position on the hospital staff G22 Photostat or James Denholm 1797 No Reference Engraving, View of the Inner Court of the University of Glasgow G23 Photostat Negative, Condition of The Fenwick Beekman Image Collection (1750 - 1930) Page 9 of 9 Bellevue area about 1830 G24 Photostat Bemrose & Sons Negative, Plan of the City of G – Photos Glasgow and the and Villages of Calton Photostats; & Gorbells Negatives G25 Photostat, Plan of Bemrose & Sons the City of Glasgow and of the Villages of Calton & Gorbells .