Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12203

    Portrait of Charles Burney

    Date
    1819
    Sitter
    Charles Burney (1757 - 1817, British) , Clergyman
    Creator - Organisation
    James Asperne, Publisher
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 188mm
    width (print): 127mm
    height (paper support): 196mm
    width (paper support): 130mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Burney after a bust.

    Inscribed ‘LONDON, Published for the European Magazine by J. Asperne 32 Cornhill 1st April 1819. The Revd. Charles Burney D.D. L.L.D. F.R.S. A.S.&c.&c.’ and pencilled ‘1802’.

    Charles Burnet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1807.

    Plate to European Magazine.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.6
    Associated place
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