Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9538
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Portrait of Lewis Weston Dillwyn
Date
1833
Sitter
Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 - 1855, British) , Naturalist
Creator - Organisation
Graf & Soret, Lithographers
After
Eden Upton Eddis (1812 - 1901, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 252mm
width (print): 173mm
width (print): 173mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of L W Dillwyn, seated.
Inscribed “E.U.Eddis delt.1833 Printed by Graf & Soret L.W.DILLWYN ESQR. M.P.” Pencil addition to this inscription: “F.R.S.” and lower left “1804”.
Lewis Weston Dillwyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804.
Inscribed “E.U.Eddis delt.1833 Printed by Graf & Soret L.W.DILLWYN ESQR. M.P.” Pencil addition to this inscription: “F.R.S.” and lower left “1804”.
Lewis Weston Dillwyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804.
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.15. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
Associated place