Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21122

    Portrait of Richard Kirwan

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Richard Kirwan (1733 - 1812, British) , Chemist
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Kirwan, inclined slightly to the right as viewed. Wearing a dark coat and stock, with a short wig.

    Illustration [plate not numbered] for the article ‘Some account of Richard Kirwan, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S. and P.R.I.A.’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.14, (1802-1803), pp.353-355.

    Inscribed below, ‘Richard Kirwan Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. and P.R.I.A. Engraved by Mackenzie from an Original Portrait in the possession of George Pearson M.D. F.R.S. &c. Published by A. Tilloch Carey Street Feby. 1 1803.’.

    Richard Kirwan (1749-1823), British chemist and mineralogist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.
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