Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11916

    Portrait of Thomas Young

    Date
    ca.1830s
    Sitter
    Thomas Young (1773 - 1829, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    G Adcock, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    John Sewell, Publisher
    After
    Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 116mm
    width (print): 93mm
    height (paper support): 193mm
    width (paper support): 127mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Thomas Young seated facing forward with head turned to the right as viewed, looking off to distance. He wears short hair and is dressed in double breasted jacket, white stock, and cravat. He holds a pair of spectacles in his right hand and has another pair suspended from a ribbon around his neck. Draped cloth hangs in the background.

    Facsimile signature reads ‘Thomas Young MD Sci. BS.’ Paper support inscribed ‘1794’ in pencil.

    Thomas Young was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794, he was Foreign Secretary from 1804 until 1829.

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