Portrait of William Saunders
Date
1817
Sitter
William Saunders (1743 - 1817, British) , Physician
Creator
Henry Hoppner Meyer (1782 - 1847, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
James Asperne, Publisher
After
William Satchwell Leney (1769, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 107mm
width (print): 89mm
height (paper support): 144mm
width (paper support): 107mm
width (print): 89mm
height (paper support): 144mm
width (paper support): 107mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of William Saunders, in left profile. He wears regency-style coat with ruffled shirt and long tied hair.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1793’.
Plate to European Magazine.
William Saunders was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.73
Inscribed on separate paper ‘William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1793’.
Plate to European Magazine.
William Saunders was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.73
Associated place