Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21117

    Portrait of Harrietta Bowdler

    Date
    1817
    Sitter
    Harrietta Bowdler (British)
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 260mm
    width (print): 195mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Harrietta Bowdler inclined slightly left and looking out at the viewer. Dressed in a pinafore, shawl and bonnet.

    Inscribed: ‘J. Slater delt. 1817. Edwd. Scriven sculpt./ Harrietta Bowdler./ Aged 72./ Proof’ with further handwritten annotation ‘From Sir E. Sabine’s Collection.’

    Harrietta Bowdler (d.1829) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. She was married to John Bowlder (1746-1823) FRS.
    Object history
    From a collection of engraved portraits bequeathed to the Society by Sir Edward Sabine (1788-1883) PRS in 1884 [CMP/5/74].
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