Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11914

    Portrait of Charles Yorke

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Charles Yorke (1722 - 1770, British) , Politician
    Creator
    William Ridley (1764 - 1838, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    John Sewell, Publisher
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 162mm
    width (plate): 111mm
    height (print): 203mm
    width (print): 125mm
    height (paper support): 227mm
    width (paper support): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Yorke in right profile. He wears long wig with queue and is dressed in overcoat with long neck cloth. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘European Magazine Engraved by Ridley THE HONBLE CHARLES YROKE natus Jan. 10 1723. Moituus Jan 20 1770. Pub by J. Sewell Cornhill Jan 1, 1803.’ Pencilled ‘’1750.’

    Charles Yorke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1750.

    Plate to European Magazine.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.91
    Associated place
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