Portrait of Paul Rycaut
Date
1680
Sitter
Paul Rycaut (1629 - 1700, British) , Diplomat
Creator
Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
After
Peter Lely (1618 - 1680, Dutch) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 148mm
width (print): 92mm
height (paper support): 196mm
width (paper support): 123mm
width (print): 92mm
height (paper support): 196mm
width (paper support): 123mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Paul Rycaut, turned to the right as viewed and looking back to viewer, he wears long wig and gown. In an oval frame on a pedestal with coat of arms.
Inscribed ‘Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul of Smyrna & Fellow of the Royall Societie’ and pencilled ‘1666’.
Frontispiece to Rycaut’s History of the Turkish Empire, 1680.
Sir Paul Rycaut was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.69
Inscribed ‘Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul of Smyrna & Fellow of the Royall Societie’ and pencilled ‘1666’.
Frontispiece to Rycaut’s History of the Turkish Empire, 1680.
Sir Paul Rycaut was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.69
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