Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1732
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    Portrait of Henry Herbert

    Date
    1762
    Sitter
    Creator
    James Bretherton (1725 - 1806, British) , Draftsman
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 263mm
    width (print): 196mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait, the sitter looking to the viewer’s left, dressed in a wig, dark coat and white neck cloth.

    Inscribed: “J. Bretherton, f. HENRY HERBERT EARL OF PEMBROKE”. In pencil lower left “1743”; lower right “1/-“.

    Henry Herbert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743.
    Transcription
    J. Bretherton, f. HENRY HERBERT EARL OF PEMBROKE
    1743
    1/-
    Object history
    Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.61. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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