Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13896

    Portrait of John Haighton

    Date
    1819
    Sitter
    John Haighton (1750 - 1823, British) , Physiologist
    Creator
    Cosmo Armstrong (British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    B & G Ridge & Co, Publisher
    After
    François Simonau (1783 - 1859, Belgian) , Painter
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 209mm
    width (print): 139mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Haighton seated in three-quarter profile to the right, his hands are clasped in front and resting on a table. In an interior setting with an obstetric specimen [?] in the background to the right and draped curtain to the left.

    Inscribed ‘Drawn by Francis Simonau. Engraved by C. Armstrong. JOHN HAIGHTON, M.D. & F.R.S. Lecturer on Midwifery & Physiology at Guys Hospital, 1819. Proof. Published as the Act directs by Benjn & Geoe Ridge & Co. Chichester, Sussex, May 1819.’

    John Haighton (ca.1755-1823) British physiologist and surgeon, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
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