Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1551
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    Portrait of Henry Halford

    Date
    1838
    Sitter
    Henry Halford (1766 - 1844, British) , Physician
    Creator
    John Cochran (British) , Engraver
    After
    Henry Room (1802 - 1850, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 274mm
    width (print): 184mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half length portrait of Henry Halford, seated, wearing a dark coat with a GCH award star at the left breast.

    Inscribed: “H.Room. J.Cochran. SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART. G,C.H. President of the Royal College of Physicians. FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1838.” With a facsimile signature. Inscribed in pencil, lower left: “1810”; lower right “1/-“
    Transcription
    H.Room. J.Cochran. SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART. G,C.H. President of the Royal College of Physicians. FISHER, SON & Co. LONDON & PARIS, 1838
    1810
    1/-
    Object history
    Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.30. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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