Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12184

    Portrait of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, 5th Earl of Orrery and 2nd Baron Marston

    Date
    1807
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    height (print): 189mm
    width (print): 134mm
    height (paper support): 227mm
    width (paper support): 151mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, 5th Earl of Orrery and 2nd Baron Marston, wearing full length curled wig and dressed in coat over decorative waistcoat. Oval in a rectangular frame.

    Inscribed ‘JOHN BOYLE EARL of CORKE and ORRERY Pub. Feby, 1. 1807 by J. Scott 442 Strand’ and pencilled ‘1746’.

    Portrait of John Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1746.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.7
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