Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13913

    Portrait of William Hewson

    Date
    ca. 19th century
    Sitter
    William Hewson (1739 - 1774, British) , Surgeon and Anatomist, Surgeon
    Creator
    [?] Henry Robinson (British) , Engraver
    After
    Benjamin Vandergucht (1753, British) , Painter
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 213mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Hewson in three-quarter to the left as viewed. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘William Hewson, F.R.S. Vandergucht Pinxt H. Robinson Sct.’

    William Hewson (1739-1774) British surgeon and anatomist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p32.
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