Portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) Product:Postcard carrying a basket of pears

carrying a basket of pears on his head

'Utility Combined with Elegance'

Found in the collection of the Musée Rodin

Eddie Wainright

'Extremes Must Meet

Portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) Product:Postcard carrying a basket of pearsHead and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse, oval, half facing to the right as viewed, his hair gathered in a queue. Plate 4 from the book Observations on the cow pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: 'R. Reeve sc. B. Waterhouse, M. D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.' Benjamin Waterhouse was a Professor of Harvard Medical School and was notable for introducing