Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13889

    Portrait of Samuel Glasse

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Samuel Glasse (1735 - 1812) , Clergyman
    Creator
    William Bond (1772 - 1827, British ) , Engraver
    After
    George Francis Joseph (1764 - 1846, British) , Portraitist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 104mm
    width (print): 86mm
    height (paper support): 228mm
    width (paper support): 153mm
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    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Samuel Glasse inclined to the left as viewed, in an interior setting with a bookcase and curtain beyond. He wears cassock and bands and has a mid-length wig.

    Inscribed ‘The REVD. S. GLASSE, D.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1764’.

    Samuel Glasse (1735-1812) was the Rector of Wanstead, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1764.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p26.
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