Portrait of Henry Baker
Date
1812
Sitter
Henry Baker (1698 - 1774, British) , Naturalist
Creator
William Nutter (1754 - 1802, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
John Bowyer Nichols, Publisher
After
James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Printmaker
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 100mm
width (print): 89mm
height (paper support): 126mm
width (paper support): 150mm
width (print): 89mm
height (paper support): 126mm
width (paper support): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in right profile with head turned back to viewer, standing next to a table with a microscope. In an oval frame.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘HENRY BAKER, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies and of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of ‘The Microscope made easy’ ‘Employment for the Microscope’ and other works. Born May 8. 1698; died Novr. 25 1774.’ And pencilled ‘1740 Henry Baker’ on paper support.
Henry Baker (1698-1774) was a British naturalist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘HENRY BAKER, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies and of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of ‘The Microscope made easy’ ‘Employment for the Microscope’ and other works. Born May 8. 1698; died Novr. 25 1774.’ And pencilled ‘1740 Henry Baker’ on paper support.
Henry Baker (1698-1774) was a British naturalist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741.
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