Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1713
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Portrait of John Heaviside
Date
1794
Sitter
John Heaviside (British) , Surgeon
Creator
William Daniell (1769 - 1837, British) , Artist
After
George Dance (1741 - 1825, British) , Architect
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 232mm
width (print): 166mm
width (print): 166mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait, seated and in profile, facing to the viewer’s right. The sitter wears a queue wig.
Inscribed: “John Heaviside F.R.S. F.A.S.”. In pencil lower left “1797”.
John Heaviside was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797.
Inscribed: “John Heaviside F.R.S. F.A.S.”. In pencil lower left “1797”.
John Heaviside was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797.
Transcription
John Heaviside F.R.S. F.A.S
1797
1797
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