Portrait of William Withering, physician and botanist

William Withering, MD, FRS, physician, geologist, chemist and botanist, Fellow of the Linnaean Society, 1741-1799. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by Carl Fredrik von Breda. Dr Withering analysing the mineral content of the medicinal spa at Queen's Bath or Caldas da Rainha in Portugal, 1794. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thornton's New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1801

18th Century Botanical Illustration Botanist Dr. Robert John Thornton Geologist History Of Science Portrait Painter Stipple Engraving Temple Of Flora William Ridley

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