Portrait of Stephen Weston
Date
1794
Sitter
Stephen Weston (1747 - 1830, British) , Clergyman
Creator
[?] Edward Harding (1755 - 1840, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
E & S Harding, Publisher
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 190mm
width (plate): 136mm
height (print): 224mm
width (print): 169mm
height (paper support): 245mm
width (paper support): 189mm
width (plate): 136mm
height (print): 224mm
width (print): 169mm
height (paper support): 245mm
width (paper support): 189mm
Subject
Description
Three quarter length portrait of Stephen Weston, turned to the right as viewed and glancing back at viewer. He stands with right hand on hip and left arm resting on mantel[?], hand held against head. He wears jacket with lace trimmed collared shirt and cape draped over right shoulder.
Inscribed ‘Harding sculpt. STEPHEN WESTON. M.A. from a Picture painted in Rome, 1775. Pubd. Nov 1. 1794 by E&S Harding, Pall Mall’ and pencilled ‘1792'.
Stephen Weston was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1792.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.87
Inscribed ‘Harding sculpt. STEPHEN WESTON. M.A. from a Picture painted in Rome, 1775. Pubd. Nov 1. 1794 by E&S Harding, Pall Mall’ and pencilled ‘1792'.
Stephen Weston was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1792.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.87
Associated place