Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1680
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Portrait of Warren Hastings
Date
1832
Sitter
Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818, British) , Governor General of India
Creator
John Henry Robinson (1796 - 1871, British) , Engraver
After
Lemuel Francis Abbott (1755 - 1803, British) , Painter
Object type
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 261mm
width (print): 183mm
width (print): 183mm
Description
Half length portrait of Hastings looking directly to the viewer, wearing a dark coat and white cravat.
Inscribed: “Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by H.Robinson. RT. HONBLE. WARREN HASTINGS, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. FISHER, SON & CO., LONDON, 1832.” With a facsimile signature. In pencil lower left “1801”.
The original painting, in the National Portrait Gallery London (NPG 1845) is attributed to Lemuel Francis Abbott, not Sir Joshua Reynolds as given in the inscription on this print.
Warren Hastings was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
Inscribed: “Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by H.Robinson. RT. HONBLE. WARREN HASTINGS, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. FISHER, SON & CO., LONDON, 1832.” With a facsimile signature. In pencil lower left “1801”.
The original painting, in the National Portrait Gallery London (NPG 1845) is attributed to Lemuel Francis Abbott, not Sir Joshua Reynolds as given in the inscription on this print.
Warren Hastings was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
Transcription
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by H.Robinson. RT. HONBLE. WARREN HASTINGS, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. FISHER, SON & CO., LONDON, 1832.
1801
1801
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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