William Brodum. Coloured stipple engraving by E. A. Ezekiel, 1797, after G. Barry
period print · 1797
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SUMMARY
Wellcome Collection archival record for a stipple engraving portrait of William Brodum (Wellcome work m55q5yfa; image V0000783), used as the practitioner portrait. Identification basis: the sitter is named by the archive record's own title, 'William Brodum. Coloured stipple engraving by E. A. Ezekiel, 1797 after G. Barry'; the engraver is E. A. Ezekiel, after a work by G. Barry, dated 1797. Catalogue references: R. Burgess, Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute (1973), no. 426.1, and Wellcome Collection 1397i. Rights status confirmed as Public Domain Mark on the IIIF image info (https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0000783, width 2273, height 3136; fetched 2026-06-15). A vision pass over the downloaded file confirmed a half-length engraved portrait of a man, consistent with a late-eighteenth-century stipple engraving and with the archive title, before the caption was finalized. Source for the actor-role media entity brodum-portrait-ezekiel-1797 (the practitioner portrait).
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This Wellcome Collection record is the archival source for the portrait of William Brodum used as the practitioner image. The sitter’s identity rests on the catalogue title, “William Brodum. Coloured stipple engraving by E. A. Ezekiel, 1797 after G. Barry”, which names both the subject and the engraver and gives the date 1797. The print is catalogued against R. Burgess’s Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute (1973), no. 426.1. The image carries a Public Domain Mark.