Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13454

    Portrait of William Derham

    Date
    ca.18th century
    Sitter
    William Derham (1657 - 1735, British) , Clergyman
    Creator
    Joshua Baker, Printmaker
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 174mm
    width (plate): 111mm
    height (print): 196mm
    width (print): 132mm
    height (paper support): 223mm
    width (paper support): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Derham in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. He wears cassock and bands. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Engrav’d by Josh. Baker. WILLIAM DERHAM, D.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1762’

    William Derham (1657-1735) was a British clergyman, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703, he was on the council between 1709 and 1717.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.15.
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