Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12127

    Portrait of Nathan Alcock

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Nathan Alcock (1707 - 1779, British) , Physician
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 103mm
    width (plate): 80mm
    height (print): 134mm
    width (print): 110mm
    height (paper support): 222mm
    width (paper support): 147mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Nathan Alcock in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. He wears short hair and full beard and is wearing a fur trimmed robe.

    Inscribed ‘N. ALCOCK’ and pencilled ‘1749’.

    Nathan Alcock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1750.

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