Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13429

    Portrait of Anthony Carlisle

    Date
    19th century
    Sitter
    Anthony Carlisle (1768 - 1842, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    After
    Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850, Irish) , Artist
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 117mm
    width (print): 94mm
    height (paper support): 172mm
    width (paper support): 133mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of Anthony Carlisle standing in three quarter profile to the left and next to a desk with manuscript, inkwell and skull. An anatomical depiction of a man in background, left hand side as viewed.

    Inscribed ‘SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE, F.R.S. President of the Royal College of Surgeons’ with facsimile signature and ‘1804 Sir Anthony Carlisle FRS’ on paper support.

    Sir Anthony Carlisle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804.

    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
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