Portrait of John Cheyne
Date
1839
Sitter
John Cheyne (1777 - 1836, British) , Surgeon
Creator
John Cochran (British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
Whittaker and Co., Publisher
After
William Deey (1804, British) , Portraitist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 114mm
width (print): 95mm
height (paper support): 169mm
width (paper support): 128mm
width (print): 95mm
height (paper support): 169mm
width (paper support): 128mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Cheyne seated in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed and looking back to viewer. He wears regency-style jacket with high collared shirt and cravat.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘M.D. F.R.S.E.’ with facsimile signature and ‘S.Cheyne MD FRS. Not F.R.S.’ on paper support.
John Cheyne was a British physician and surgeon, he was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.12.
Inscribed on separate paper ‘M.D. F.R.S.E.’ with facsimile signature and ‘S.Cheyne MD FRS. Not F.R.S.’ on paper support.
John Cheyne was a British physician and surgeon, he was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.12.
Associated place