Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21006

    Portrait of Joseph Black

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    Joseph Black (1728 - 1799, British) , Physician
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    After
    James Tassie (1735 - 1799, British) , Modeler
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Black, in profile, facing left as viewed. Wearing his hair en queue, dressed in a dark coat.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.7, (1800).

    Inscribed below, ‘Joseph Black M.D. From Tassie Mackenzie sc. Published Augt. 1 1801’.

    Joseph Black (1728-1799), British physician and chemist, Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow University, and Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at Edinburgh University.
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