Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1487

    Portrait of Joseph Henry Green

    Date
    1835
    Sitter
    Joseph Henry Green (1791 - 1863, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Samuel Laurence (1817 - 1884, British) , Lithographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 315mm
    width (print): 240mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Joseph Henry Green reproduced from a chalk and charcoal drawing. Green’s face is shown in the most detail with his jacket sketched in lightly below. His head is turned slightly towards the right with his eyes looking out towards the viewer. He wears a bow tie with a dark jacket and has neat, white hair.

    Inscribed below: ‘Drawn from the Life and on Stone by Saml Laurence./Printed by C. Hullmandel./Professor of the University of Heidelberg &c. &c./To JOSEPH HENRY GREEN Esqr Professor of Surgery at King’s College, London, F.R.S. &c. &c. &c./This Portrait is most respectfully dedicated by his obliged and obedient Servant,/A. SCHLOSS./London: Published Decr 1st 1835, by A. Schloss, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury.’

    Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863), British surgeon, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
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