Credit: ©The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.1564
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Henry Hallam
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                                1834
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Sitter
                            
                            
                                Henry Hallam (1777 - 1859, British) , Historian
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator - Organisation
                            
                            
                                Graf & Soret, Lithographers
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                After
                            
                            
                                Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830, British) , Painter
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 280mm
width (print): 193mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 193mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Head and shoulders portrait of Hallam, facing to the viewer’s right. The sitter has short hair, curled to the front and wears a fashionably high collar and tie, with jacket. 
Inscribed “Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. pinxt.1834. Printed by Graf & Soret. HENRY HALLAM ESQR.” In pencil lower left: “1821”
 
Henry Hallam was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed “Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. pinxt.1834. Printed by Graf & Soret. HENRY HALLAM ESQR.” In pencil lower left: “1821”
Henry Hallam was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
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                                Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. pinxt.1834. Printed by Graf & Soret. HENRY HALLAM ESQR.
1821
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            1821
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.32. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.   
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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