Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13933

    Portrait of William Hunter

    Date
    1847
    Sitter
    William Hunter (1718 - 1783, British) , Physician, Physician
    Creator
    James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Engraver
    After
    Robert Edge Pine (1742, British) , Painter
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (plate): 115mm
    width (plate): 93mm
    height (print): 139mm
    width (print): 100mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of William Hunter seated at a desk with an open book. He wears mid-length periwig and is dressed in a coat with deep cuffs and shirt with lace cuffs.

    Inscribed ‘William Hunter, M.D. F.R.S.’ and inked ‘William Hunter FRS’ on paper support with the sitters date of election pencilled lower left.

    William Hunter (1718-1783) British physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p29.
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