Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21011

    Portrait of Richard Pulteney

    Date
    1802
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Pulteney, wearing a wig, with a dark coat, the top buttons undone, and a cravat. Inclined to the right. Looking directly at the viewer, smiling slightly. Wearing a short wig, dark coat, and cravat. Presented within an oval frame.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.12, (1802).

    Inscribed below, ‘Richard Pulteney M.D. F.R.S. of London & Edinburgh, & F.L.S. Engd. by Mackenzie from an Original Picture in the possession of Mrs. Pulteney. Publish’d by A. Tilloch Carey Street May 1. 1802.’.

    Richard Pulteney (1730-1801), British physician and botanist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762.
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