J. de Castro Sarmento, M.D. Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium Collega, Regię Societatis Socius.
Pine Pinx:t. Houston Fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1690-1762), a Portuguse doctor (and privately a practicing Jew), who came to London in 1720. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers, based on the bark of the cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained. Jewish interest.
CS 108. Wellcome 557. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67584] £280.00
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1690-1762), a Portuguse doctor (and privately a practicing Jew), who came to London in 1720. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers, based on the bark of the cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained. Jewish interest.
CS 108. Wellcome 557. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67584] £280.00