Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11842

    Portrait of John Tillotson

    Date
    1717
    Sitter
    John Tillotson (British) , Clergyman
    Creator
    Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Printmaker
    After
    Mary Beale (1633 - 1699, English) , Portraitist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 155mm
    width (print): 97mm
    height (paper support): 179mm
    width (paper support): 110mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Tillotson turned slightly to the right as viewed and looking back to viewer. He wears mid length wig and is dressed in cassock and bands. Decorated oval in a rectangular frame with crest and inscription on pedestal.

    Inscribed ‘R.White sculp. The most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury’ and pencilled ‘1761.’

    John Tillotson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.78
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