Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21094

    Portrait of Clarke Abel

    Date
    19th century
    Sitter
    Clarke Abel (1775 - 1826) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Maxim Gauci (1774 - 1854, Italian) , Engraver
    Godefroy Englemann (1788 - 1854, Franco-German) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 280mm
    width (print): 230mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Clarke Abel, inclined to the left [as viewed], dressed in a regency-style coat with standing collar.

    Inscribed: ‘Drawn on Stone by M Gauci Painted by P. W. Wilkin, Esq/ CLARKE ABEL, M.D./ Died at Cainnore, 24th Novr. 1826, Aged 37/ Printed by Englemann, G, C., & Co.’

    Clarke Abel (c.1780 - 1826), British surgeon and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Powered by CollectionsIndex+/CollectionsOnline