Portrait of Martin Archer Shee
Date
1824
Sitter
Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850, Irish) , Painter
Creator
John Thomson (1778 - 1840, British) , Engraver
After
Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850, Irish) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 214mm
width (print): 138mm
height (paper support): 229mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (print): 138mm
height (paper support): 229mm
width (paper support): 152mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Sir Martin Archer Shee, facing forward with head turned three quarters to the left as viewed, his elbows are bent at right angles as if resting hands on hips [hands not visible]. He wears regency-style clothing with high collared shirt and double breasted coat.
Inscribed ‘Seipse pinxt. Thomson sculpt. Sir Martin Archer Shee. Published for the proprietors of the European Magazine, Jany. 1:1824, by Sherwood & Co. Paternoster Row’ and pencilled ‘1831’.
Sir Martin Archer Shee was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.74
Inscribed ‘Seipse pinxt. Thomson sculpt. Sir Martin Archer Shee. Published for the proprietors of the European Magazine, Jany. 1:1824, by Sherwood & Co. Paternoster Row’ and pencilled ‘1831’.
Sir Martin Archer Shee was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831.
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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