Portrait of James Forbes
Date
1816
Sitter
James Forbes (1749 - 1819, British) , Author
Creator
Thomas Blood (1777 - 1850, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
European Magazine, Publisher
After
Denis Brownell Murphy (1745 - 1842, British) , Miniaturist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 141mm
width (print): 119mm
height (paper support): 201mm
width (paper support): 153mm
width (print): 119mm
height (paper support): 201mm
width (paper support): 153mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of James Forbes, in left three-quarter profile as viewed. He wears a high-collared shirt and has short white hair.
Inscribed ‘James Forbes Esq. F.R.S.’
James Forbes (1749-1819) was a British author and traveller, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p21.
Inscribed ‘James Forbes Esq. F.R.S.’
James Forbes (1749-1819) was a British author and traveller, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p21.
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