Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12123

    Portrait of John Abernethy

    Date
    1819
    Sitter
    John Abernethy (1764 - 1831, British) , Surgeon, Surgeon
    Creator
    James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    James Asperne, Publisher
    After
    James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 217mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Abernethy in left profile. He wears wig with queue and is dressed in regency-style clothing of high collared double breasted jacket with shirt and cravat.

    Inscribed ‘LONDON. Published for the European Magazine by J Asperne, 32 Cornhill 1st Nov 1819. John Abernethy F.R.S. Drawn & Engraved by J Thomson.'

    Plate to European Magazine.

    John Abernethy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1796.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.2
    Associated place
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