Portrait of Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg
Date
1796
Sitter
Creator
Peltro William Tomkins (1760, British) , Engraver
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 188mm
width (plate): 147mm
height (page): 285mm
width (page): 219mm
height (paper support): 294mm
width (paper support): 227mm
width (plate): 147mm
height (page): 285mm
width (page): 219mm
height (paper support): 294mm
width (paper support): 227mm
Description
Half-length portrait of Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg looking straight at viewer. He wears jacket with epaulettes, sash across right shoulder, and badges pinned to left hand breast of jacket. In an oval frame. A heraldic badge below portrait with escutcheon of diamond ordinaries and two fish charge, coronet, order, and cloaked in ermine fur.
Inscribed ‘Painted by Schweppe. Engraved by P. W. Tomkins, Hist Engraver to Her Majesty. To their Majesties, This Portrait of his serene Highness FREDERICK. WILLIAM. HEREDITARY PRINCE OF WIRTEMBURG, &c &c. Is most Humbly Dedicated by their Majesties most Obedient & Devoted Subject & Servant, P.W. Tomkins, Hist. Engraver to Her Majesty. Published as the Act Directs, Augst 20th. 1796, bu P. W. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street, London'.
Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.86
Inscribed ‘Painted by Schweppe. Engraved by P. W. Tomkins, Hist Engraver to Her Majesty. To their Majesties, This Portrait of his serene Highness FREDERICK. WILLIAM. HEREDITARY PRINCE OF WIRTEMBURG, &c &c. Is most Humbly Dedicated by their Majesties most Obedient & Devoted Subject & Servant, P.W. Tomkins, Hist. Engraver to Her Majesty. Published as the Act Directs, Augst 20th. 1796, bu P. W. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street, London'.
Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.86