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Hugh Welch Diamond

Header: Hugh Welch Diamond
Also known as: Hugh Welch Diamond; primary name: Diamond, Hugh Welch
Details: individual; medical; collector; photographer; British; Male
Life dates: 1809-1886
Biography: Surgeon and specialist in nervous diseases, pioneer photographer (Secretary of the Royal Photographic Society), and antiquarian. P&D purchased his collection of 208 early mezzotints through W&G Smith in 1838 (1838,0420.1 to 208), and engravings by Claude Mellan in 1851 (1851,1213.440 to 664, including a few more mezzotints). Franks acquired some items from his collection of ceramics, and other antiquities associated with him have also entered the collections.
Bibliography: DNB wrote article on 'The earliest specimens of mezzotint engraving', Archaeologia, XXVII 1838, p.405 (offprint in P&D). Lugt 671 Carolyn Bloore, 'HWD, doctor, antiquarian, photographer', Orleans House Gallery 1980 Adrienne Burrows, 'Portraits of the Insane, the case of HWD', New York 1990 A Griffiths (ed), 'Landmarks in Print Collecting' 1996, pp.137-8 and footnotes 37 to 43

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Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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bowl

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Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.14 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

bowl

Museum number: 1848,0510.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.69 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.68 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.9 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.49 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Epsom and Ewell

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Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.48 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.16 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.50 |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.51 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Epsom and Ewell

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Museum number: 1848,0510.58 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.12 |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.52 |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.54 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.55 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.65 |
Cultures/periods: x41218 Romano-British |
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Museum number: 1848,0510.64 |
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Museum number: 1851,1213.616 |
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Production date: 1671

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Museum number: 1838,0420.191 |
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Production date: 1660-1675

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Museum number: 1851,1213.543 |
Producer name: BIOG38080 Print made by:Claude Mellan |
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Production place: Printed in:Rome (city)

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Museum number: 1838,0420.36 |
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Production date: 1660-1675

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Production date: 1644-1650 |
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Museum number: 1838,0420.45 |
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Production date: 1675-1719 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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Museum number: 1838,0420.152 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Smith, the mezzotinterAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1720

print

Museum number: 1838,0420.87 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gerard ValckPublished by:Gerard Valck |
Production date: 1680

print

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Museum number: 1838,0420.173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Peter van BleeckAfter:Richard van Bleeck |
Production date: 1735

print

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Museum number: 1851,1213.601 |
Producer name: BIOG38080 Print made by:Claude Mellan |
Production date: 1631

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Producer name: BIOG38080 Print made by:Claude Mellan |
Production date: 1639-1640

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Museum number: 1838,0420.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard HoustonAfter:Prince Rupert of the Rhine |
Production date: 1736-1775

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Production date: 1642-1700

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Museum number: 1838,0420.55 |
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Production date: 1683-1687

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Museum number: 1838,0420.176 |
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Production date: 1704

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Production date: 1679

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