5 Bronze Portrait Medallions
Includes Professor Pierre Augustin Béclard (1785-1825), French anatomist and surgeon. He was a professor of anatomy in Paris and chief surgeon at Pitié Hospital, and in 1818 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy, designed by Carle Vernet Peuvrier. Paris Mint 1970 (Dia.40mm); Harold Mattingly (1884-1964), Historian of ancient Rome and numismatist, designed by Paul Vincze (1907-1994) (Dia.49mm); Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery (Dia.50mm); Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, designed by Karl Maria Schwerdtner (Dia.59mm); and Anton Drasche (1826-1904), Austrian Physician and Epidemiologist, designed by Anton Scharff (1845-1904) (Dia.58mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $200-300