Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus]. Line engraving by J. Payne after Q. Metsys.

[London] (at ye Globe) : Are to be sould by Willia(m) Webb

1 print : engraving

The lively portraiture of ye most famous and profound philosopher & physitian Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast of Hohenheim who was poysned the 47th yeare of his age. Io. Payne scul.

"Payne probably did it from the engraving by P. van Sompel" (Hind, loc. cit.)

A.M Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III (by M. Corbett and M. Norton), Cambridge 1964, p. 17, no. 27

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2218.1

Wellcome Collection 7593i