Three quarter length portrait of Robert Plot
Date
1802
Sitter
Robert Plot (British) , Archaeologist
Creator
After anonymous painting in the Bodleian Library Sylvester Harding (1745 - 1809, British) , Publisher
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 272mm
width (print): 200mm
height (paper support): 289mm
width (paper support): 229mm
width (print): 200mm
height (paper support): 289mm
width (paper support): 229mm
Subject
Description
Three quarter length portrait of Robert Plot, seated in front of a column, wearing a gown with a scroll in his right hand.
Inscribed ‘Dr. Robert Plot. From an original in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. Pub Sep. 1.1802 by S Harding, 127 Pall Mall.’ and pencilled ‘1677’.
Robert Plot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677, he was Secretary from 1682-1684 and on the Council in 1680, 1682-1683, 1687-1688, 1692 and 1694.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.63
Inscribed ‘Dr. Robert Plot. From an original in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. Pub Sep. 1.1802 by S Harding, 127 Pall Mall.’ and pencilled ‘1677’.
Robert Plot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677, he was Secretary from 1682-1684 and on the Council in 1680, 1682-1683, 1687-1688, 1692 and 1694.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.63
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