Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13453

    Portrait of Thomas Denman

    Date
    1821
    Sitter
    1st Baron Denman Thomas Denman (1779 - 1854) , Judge
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    Creator - Organisation
    Thomas Boys, Publisher
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 189mm
    width (print): 139mm
    height (paper support): 225mm
    width (paper support): 154mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Denman inclined to the right as viewed and wearing regency-style clothes. In an octagonal frame surmounted by four cherubs [representing the virtues ?] and supported with iconography including an axe, sword, scroll, chains and scales. A swag of fabric inscribed with sitters name draped over the bottom of the frame.

    Inscribed ‘THOMAS DENMAN, ESQ M.P. PUBLISHED MARCH 1 1821: BY T BOYS, 7 LUDGATE HILL. Engraved with permission by W.T. FRY.’ And pencilled ‘1833’.

    Sir Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (1779-1854) was a British judge, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1833.
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