A photograph of Harvey’s coffin taken about 1882. The coffin is shown propped up in the vault of the Harvey chapel at Hempstead Church. It is of lead with a rudely modelled face, a rope being twisted round the neck and a plate upon the chest bearing the inscription
DOCTOR WILLIAM + HARVEY + DECEASED + THE + 3 + OF + JUNE + 1657 + AGED + 79 + YEARS.
The leaden shell with its contents was deposited in the marble sarcophagus provided by the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke’s Day 1883.
The photograph from which the collotype was made was kindly sent by Mr. Willoughby Arthur Blackstone, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.
_The British Museum Catalogue of Engraved Portraits_, by Freeman O’Donoghue, F.S.A. (Lond. 1910, vol. ii, p. 459), gives a list of the Engraved Portraits of William Harvey, which has been enlarged by Mr. Sidney H. Badcock, who has made a special study of the Harvey Engravings.
1. H.L. to R. in gown; oval frame with ornaments. Plate to Birch’s heads. Pub. Knapton, 1739, from the picture ‘in the collection of Dr. Mead’.
One proof with artist’s name only; two lettered impressions. In the first edition the portrait has a very narrow margin. A few copies were published in parts with a wider margin. The plate was also published as a proof before letters, a proof with letters and a wide margin, and it was issued in both states on India paper. It was re-cut for the fourth edition of Birch published in 1813 with a margin of 2-2½ inches.
2. A copy of the last with the ornaments; reversed and a square frame added to enclose the whole picture. Pub. G. Kearsly, 1777. From the _Copper-plate Magazine_.
3. Another copy with the ornaments; reversed. Plate to _Universal Magazine_. Pub. J. Hinton.
4. Another copy to L., nearly full face; in Doctor’s gown and collar with the strings tied: in an oval frame resting on a pedestal lettered ‘William Harvey M.D.’
5. Another copy, bust only to R.; oval, at head of an account of him. Plate to _Biographical Magazine_. Pub. Harrison & Co., 1795.
6. Another copy, bust only to L.; without background; four Latin lines below.
7. Nearly W.L. to R. seated, in gown, hat in r. hand. From the picture at the College of Physicians of London. Frontispiece to his _Opera Omnia_, 1766. Corn. Jonson, pinxt.