Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1656
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Portrait of John Harris
Date
1704
Sitter
John Harris (1661 - 1719, British) , Science writer
Creator
George White (1645 - 1732, British) , Engraver
After
Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 267mm
width (print): 168mm
width (print): 168mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait in gown, wig and falling bands. Oval surround with decorative acanthus, coat of arms below.
Inscribed: “R.White delin. G.White Sculp. Johannes Harris. A.M. Regiae Societatis Socius. Aetat. Suae 37.” In pencil lower left “El 1696 dd 1719”. In pencil verso “Bought 22.4.1892 6d”
Originally printed in Harris’s Lexicon technicum; or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences, explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves (London, 1704).
John Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696.
Inscribed: “R.White delin. G.White Sculp. Johannes Harris. A.M. Regiae Societatis Socius. Aetat. Suae 37.” In pencil lower left “El 1696 dd 1719”. In pencil verso “Bought 22.4.1892 6d”
Originally printed in Harris’s Lexicon technicum; or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences, explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves (London, 1704).
John Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696.
Transcription
R.White delin. G.White Sculp. Johannes Harris. A.M. Regiae Societatis Socius. Aetat. Suae 37
El 1696 dd 1719
Bought 22.4.1892 6d
El 1696 dd 1719
Bought 22.4.1892 6d
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.29.
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