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Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE
Metal momento mori finger ring, set with 1 large square transparent stone with a skull underneath, and a small square transparent stone either side of large stone, bears inscription on band, 1725

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1725

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Shang Dynasty sacrificial bowl

Asian Medicine

1766-1122 BCE

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Trade card: Benj. Scott, at the Mariner & Globe

.Unattributed

1725

Trade card: Edward Laurence and William Gardiner

.Unattributed

1725
Engraving of Newcomen Atmospheric Engine, by Sutton Nicholls, 1725, entitled "The Engine for Raising Water by Fire"

The Engine for Raising Water by Fire

Motive Power

1725
Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis, XVI 11th Dynasty, 2000-1500 BC. Mounted together on a plaster base.

Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis

Agricultural Engineering

2000-1500 BCE
Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite

Classical & Medieval Medicine

4000-1000 BCE
Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
Medal, ticket giving free entrance to the Hortus Medicus, Amsterdam, bronze, Dutch, 1725

Medal, ticket giving free entrance to the Hortus M

Wellcome Medals

1725
Excavated middle bronze age, mandible showing ground teeth and periostitis, Welsh, 1750-1251BC

Human Jaw Bone

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1750-1250 BCE
Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars, probably neolithic with photograph of similar, French, 2000BC(?)-1000BC(?)

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2000-1000 BCE
Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note).

Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

3000-1000 BCE
Notebook complied by David Donald of machinery seen on a visit to France, Germany and the low countries, c. 1725

Notebook complied by David Donald of machinery see

Motive Power

1725
Bronze medal to commemorate Pope Benedict XIII, by Hameranus, Italy, 1725.

Bronze medal to commemorate Pope Benedict XIII, by

Wellcome Medals

1725
Trade card: Francis Hauksbee (the Nephew of the late Mr Hauksbee, deceased), Crane Court, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London. c.1725. Maker of pumps and hydrostatic apparatus. (Calv. 181) (C.C. 105)

Trade card: Francis Hauksbee

.Unattributed

1725