Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1564
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Portrait of Henry Hallam
Date
1834
Sitter
Henry Hallam (1777 - 1859, British) , Historian
Creator - Organisation
Graf & Soret, Lithographers
After
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 280mm
width (print): 193mm
width (print): 193mm
Subject
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.
Transcription
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.
Associated place