Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12191

    Portrait of James Brindley

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    James Brindley (1716, British) , Engineer
    Creator
    Henry Richard Cook (British) , Engraver
    After
    Francis Parsons (1733, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 119mm
    width (print): 94mm
    height (paper support): 220mm
    width (paper support): 149mm
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of James Brindley standing in three quarter profile to the left as viewed and leaning on surveying instrument. Barton Aqueduct [?] in background on left hand side as viewed and urn with vine to the right, with a tree behind.

    Inscribed ‘Painted by F Parsons. Engraved by H. Cook.’ and pencilled on paper support James Brindley’

    James Brindley was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was an engineer.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.4
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