Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10081
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Portrait silhouette of George Pearson
Date
1801
Sitter
George Pearson (British) , Physician
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X237/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 268mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Silhouette of George Pearson, facing to the right as viewed, his hair or wig tied in a queue and wearing a lace cravat.
Plate 3 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “G. Pearson, M.D. F.R.S. &c.”
George Pearson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
Plate 3 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “G. Pearson, M.D. F.R.S. &c.”
George Pearson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
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