Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9542
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Portrait of Pierre Duval
Date
1819
Sitter
Creator
Charles Knight (1743, British) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 269mm
width (print): 221mm
width (print): 221mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Half length portrait of Duval reading a book with a page title “GEOGRAPHY”.
Inscribed: “Painted 1813 & Engraved & Published Jany. 1 1819 by C.Knight Hammersmith. The Revd. Pierre Duval.”
The Reverend Philip Duval (1732–1808) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774. Print collected in error?
Inscribed: “Painted 1813 & Engraved & Published Jany. 1 1819 by C.Knight Hammersmith. The Revd. Pierre Duval.”
The Reverend Philip Duval (1732–1808) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774. Print collected in error?
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.
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