William Welch Bronze

We have bronzes of two of the Big Four at Hopkins. One is Sir William Osler, and this one is of William H. Welch. 

Among his other accomplishments, Welch was president of MedChi in 1891-92, and was twice the Orator.

In 1910, Dr. Welch and Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs had traveled to Paris, and while there, Dr. Welch sat for a commemorative plaque sculpted by Victor David Brenner whose profile of Abraham Lincoln graces every U.S. penny. 

The bronze was created in honor of Welch's election to the Presidency of the American Medical Association. Initially, three small plaquettes were created, but later, larger versions of the plaque were cast. Three of these are held in the collections of Johns Hopkins, Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital where Welch served as the President of its board from the hospital's earliest days, and of course, Med Chi.