Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13917

    Portrait of Benjamin Hobhouse

    Date
    ca. 19th century
    Sitter
    Benjamin Hobhouse (1757 - 1831) , Barrister
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 109mm
    width (print): 84mm
    height (paper support): 187mm
    weight (paper support): 136mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Hobhouse seated with his right arm resting on the back of the wooden chair. He wears regency-style clothing and has short hair with side-whiskers.

    Inscribed ‘Sir BENJAMIN HOBHOUSE, Bart. F.R.S. &c &c.’ pencilled ‘1798’ lower left hand corner.

    Benjamin Hobhouse (1757-1831) British barrister, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p31.
    Associated place
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