Portrait of Lucas Pepys
Date
1809
Sitter
Lucas Pepys (1742 - 1830, British) , Physician
Creator
James Godby (1750, British) , Printmaker
After
Henry Edridge (1769 - 1821, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 181mm
width (print): 159mm
height (paper support): 277mm
width (paper support): 218mm
width (print): 159mm
height (paper support): 277mm
width (paper support): 218mm
Subject
Description
Half length portrait of Lucas Pepys, turned to the left and looking straight at viewer.
Inscribed ‘SIR LUCAS PEPYS, BART. M.D.F.R.S. & S.A.’ and pencilled ‘1780, from the drawing by H Edridge’.
Sir Lucas Pepys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.55
Inscribed ‘SIR LUCAS PEPYS, BART. M.D.F.R.S. & S.A.’ and pencilled ‘1780, from the drawing by H Edridge’.
Sir Lucas Pepys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.55
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