Portrait of William Woodville
Date
ca.1806
Sitter
William Woodville (1752 - 1805, British) , Botanist
Creator
William Bond (1772 - 1827, British ) , Engraver
After
Lemuel Francis Abbott (1755 - 1803, British) , Painter
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 148mm
width (print): 123mm
height (paper support): 187mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (print): 123mm
height (paper support): 187mm
width (paper support): 152mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of William Woodville inclined to the left as viewed, seated with arms crossed. He wears mid length hair and is dressed in regency-style clothing of high collared coat and cravat. In an oval frame.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘WILLIAM WOODVILLE, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Medical Botany; &c.’ and ‘William Woodville MD. FRS’ in pen on paper support.
William Woodville (1752-1805) was a British physician and botanist.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.86
Inscribed on separate paper ‘WILLIAM WOODVILLE, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Medical Botany; &c.’ and ‘William Woodville MD. FRS’ in pen on paper support.
William Woodville (1752-1805) was a British physician and botanist.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.86
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