Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11635

    Portrait of William Scott

    Date
    1816
    Sitter
    Baron Stowell William Scott (1745 - 1836) , Judge
    Creator - Organisation
    James Asperne, Publisher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 199mm
    width (print): 131mm
    height (paper support): 228mm
    width (paper support): 153mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of William Scott, facing forward and looking off to the right as viewed. He wears regency-style clothing with high collared shirt and double breasted coat.

    Inscribed ‘LONDON, published for the European Magazine by James Asperne no.32 Cornhill 1st July 1816. The Right Honourable SIR WILLIAM SCOTT, KNT. D.C.L & F.R.S. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty’ and pencilled ‘1793’.

    Sir William Scott, Baron Stowell, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.74
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