Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13938

    Portrait of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638 - 1709, British) , Politician
    Creator
    Sylvester Harding (1745 - 1809, British) , Engraver
    After
    Peter Lely (1618 - 1680, Dutch) , Painter
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 187mm
    width (print): 138mm
    height (paper support): 227mm
    width (paper support): 153mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon inclined to the right and looking back to viewer. He wears long natural hair with draped shoulders. Oval in a rectangular frame.

    Inscribed ‘HENRY HYDE SECOND EARL OF CLARENDON. FROM A PICTURE BY SIR PETER LELY. Pub Jany 2 1803 by S Harding 197 Pall Mall.’ Pencilled ‘1684’ lower left.

    Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709) British politician elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1684 and served on the Council the same year.
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