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
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 272mm
    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

    Associated place
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    Credit
    ©The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.11253
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