Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11436

    Portrait of Pasquale de Paoli

    Date
    1 May 1795
    Sitter
    Pasquale de Paoli (1725 - 1807)
    Creator - Organisation
    Benjamin Crosby, Publisher
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 194mm
    width (print): 121mm
    height (paper support): 225mm
    width (paper support): 151mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Pasquale de Paoli, facing forward and looking off to the right as viewed. He wears military jacket with epaulettes and frilled shirt. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘GENERAL PAOLI. Published May 1 1795 by B Crosby 4 Stationers Court, Ludgate Street’ and pencilled ‘1774'.

    Pasquale de Paoli was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.61
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