Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11391

    Portrait of Robert Marsham

    Date
    late 18th century
    Sitter
    Robert Marsham (1702 - 1797) , Botanist
    Creator
    William Camden Edwards (1777 - 1855, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    C Muskett, Publisher
    After
    Johann Zoffany (1733, German) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 179mm
    width (print): 144mm
    height (paper support): 204mm
    width (paper support): 151mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Robert Marsham, looking upwards, resting head on right hand. Right elbow rests on paper inscribed ‘measures of trees 1743 to1761’.

    Inscribed ‘Robert Marsham FRS' and pencilled ‘1780’.

    Robert Marsham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.51
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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