A man designated as Ralphe Barret(t), surgeon. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

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[1900?]
Reference:
578068i
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A man designated as Ralphe Barret(t), surgeon. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ralphe Barret(t) is named as a barber-surgeon in The annals of the barber-surgeons of London, ed. Sidney Young, London 1890, p. 322, entry for 15 July 1600: "Ralphe Barrett & Robert Thompson, two forren surgeons" (i.e. not free of the Company) requested examination. He is not mentioned as serving James I by Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The royal doctors, 1485-1714: medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts, Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, ca. 2001

Publication/Creation

[1900?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 46 x 29 cm

Lettering

Ralphe Barret MD Doctor of physick and surgeon ... of ... King James Ist A.D. 1624

Reference

Wellcome Collection 578068i

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