Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21180

    Portrait of William Briggs

    Date
    1738
    Sitter
    William Briggs (1642 - 1704, British) , Physician
    Creator
    John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
    Philip Overton (British) , Publisher
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 315mm
    width (print): 250mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of William Briggs, inclined to the right, holding an open copy of his Ophthalmo-Graphia: or an Anatomical Description of the Eye […]. Dressed in a decorative jacket with white lace cuffs and necktie, and tightly curled wig.

    Inscribed: ‘I. Faber fecit 1738/ William Briggs M. D. Physician in Ordinary to King William ye 3rd/ [Fellow] of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society, &c./ Sold by P. Overton in Fleet Street.’

    William Briggs (1642-1704), British physician and oculist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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