Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11650

    Portrait of John Soane

    Date
    mid 19th century
    Sitter
    John Soane (1753, British) , Architect
    Creator
    James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    Fisher Son & Co., Publisher
    After
    Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 113mm
    width (print): 91mm
    height (paper support): 182mm
    width (paper support): 149mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three quarter length portrait of John Soane seated in an armchair, he wears regency-style coat with velvet waistcoat.

    Inscribed in pen ‘Sir. John Soane FRS’ and pencilled ‘1821’.
    Inscribed on separate paper ‘by Sir Thos. Lawrence. P.R.A. Engraved by J. Thomson. SIR JOHN SOANE R.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.’ with facsimile signature.

    Sir John Soane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.

    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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