Image number: RS.1271

    Portrait of John Forbes

    Date
    1848
    Sitter
    John Forbes (1787 - 1861, British) , Physician
    Creator
    Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821 - 1895, British) , Lithographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 320mm
    width (print): 245mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length seated portrait showing John Forbes in a jacket and waistcoat holding a top hat and a thin walking stick. He is wearing glasses and has white hair with his distinctive whiskers. His body is turned slightly to the left with his head turned right to look directly out of the frame.

    Inscribed below: ‘T. H. Maguire./1848./yours faithfully/John Forbes’

    John Forbes (1787 – 1861), British physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1829.
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