OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Photograph Signed ("Wm Osler") and Inscribed, 148 x 100 mm gelatin silver print, on a 167 x 107 mm Hills & Saunders, Oxford" card mount, a seated half-length portrait, inscribed across image lower left, "Sincerely Yours, Wm Osler," matted and framed.RARE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF OSLER, seated with his left arm resting on the arm of the chair, staring directly at the camera. This is almost certainly the first formal photograph of Osler taken after he arrived in Oxford to be Regius Professor of Medicine in June 1905. A drawing based on this photograph appeared in the July 1906 issue of The Munsey magazine (a copy of which is included here). The Osler Library has an unmounted example of this photograph (Image number CUS_064-071_P).