Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13874

    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
    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.
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