Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13421

    Portrait of Thomas Crofts

    Date
    1818
    Sitter
    Thomas Crofts (1722 - 1781) , Clergyman
    Creator
    [?] R Cooper, Printmaker
    Creator - Organisation
    William Clarke, Publisher
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 228mm
    width (print): 151mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Crofts in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. He wears high-collared shirt with jacket and waistcoat. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Revd Thomas Crofts A M. Published March 1 1818 by W Clarke New Bond Street’ and pencilled ‘1776’.

    Thomas Crofts (1722-1781) was a British clergyman and traveller; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.11.
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