Portrait of Thomas Boothby Parkyns, Baron Rancliffe
Date
19 Sep 1796
Sitter
Baron Rancliffe Thomas Boothby Parkyns (1755 - 1800) , Politician
Creator
William Satchwell Leney (1769, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
George Cawthorn, Publisher
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 187mm
width (print): 123mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 153mm
width (print): 123mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 153mm
Subject
Description
Three quarter length portrait of Thomas Boothby Parkyns, leaning against pillar with sword at hip, looking off to the right as viewed. He wears full length coat with ruffled shirt and sash across right hand shoulder with three badge. In an oval frame with heraldic badge and inscription below.
Inscribed ‘From an Original Picture…….Leney sculp. The R. Hon. Thos Boothby Parkyns, LORD RANCLIFFE OF IRELAND, supreme G.M. of K Templars & G.M. of Royal Arch Masons &c &c. V.P. of the S. of A. F.R.S F.A.S. c c & M.P. for Leicester. London Publishd by G. Cawthorn. British Library, Strand, Sept 19 1796’ and pencilled ‘1787’.
Thomas Boothby Parkyns was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.61
Inscribed ‘From an Original Picture…….Leney sculp. The R. Hon. Thos Boothby Parkyns, LORD RANCLIFFE OF IRELAND, supreme G.M. of K Templars & G.M. of Royal Arch Masons &c &c. V.P. of the S. of A. F.R.S F.A.S. c c & M.P. for Leicester. London Publishd by G. Cawthorn. British Library, Strand, Sept 19 1796’ and pencilled ‘1787’.
Thomas Boothby Parkyns was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787.
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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