Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11267

    Portrait of Patrick Russell

    Date
    ca. 18th century
    Sitter
    Patrick Russell (1727 - 1805, British) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 204mm
    width (print): 175mm
    height (paper support): 294mm
    width (paper support): 242mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Patrick Russell, turned to the right and looking straight at viewer. He wears collarless jacket and turban.

    Inscribed ‘PATRICK RUSSELL M.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1777’.

    Patrick Russell (1727-1805), British physician and naturalist to the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
    Object history
    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.69
    Associated place
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