Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1862

    Portrait of John Zephaniah Holwell

    Date
    c.1780
    Sitter
    John Zephaniah Holwell (1711 - 1798) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Unknown, Lithographer
    After
    Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 180mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Zephaniah Holwell in a red jacket, looking towards the right, as viewed. Coloured lithograph after a painting by Joshua Reynolds.

    Inscribed below: ‘JOHN ZEPHANIAH HOLWELL, F.R.S./1711-1798/Surgeon Calcutta/Conducted defence of Calcutta 1756,/Governor of Bengal 1760./(From a Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds,/in the Victoria Memorial Calcutta).’

    John Zephaniah Holwell (1711 - 1798), British surgeon, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.
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