Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1944
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Portrait of Joseph Huddart
Date
1821
Sitter
Joseph Huddart (1741 - 1816, British) , Hydrographer
After
John Hoppner (1758 - 1810, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 194mm
width (print): 194mm
Description
Half length seated portrait of Huddart, his body turned to the viewer’s right, wearing a single breasted coat with a double row of buttons.
Inscribed: “CAPTN. JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. Aetat. Suae. 61. From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr., R,A, in the possession of Charles Hampden Turner Esqr.”
The print appeared as the frontispiece to Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, FRS &c. by Joseph Huddart [the younger] (London, printed by W.Phillips, 1821).
Joseph Huddart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
Inscribed: “CAPTN. JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. Aetat. Suae. 61. From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr., R,A, in the possession of Charles Hampden Turner Esqr.”
The print appeared as the frontispiece to Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, FRS &c. by Joseph Huddart [the younger] (London, printed by W.Phillips, 1821).
Joseph Huddart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
Transcription
CAPTN. JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. Aetat. Suae. 61. From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr., R,A, in the possession of Charles Hampden Turner Esqr
Object history
Provenance unknown. Not in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript.
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