Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21215

    Portrait of James Watt

    Date
    1806
    Sitter
    James Watt (1736 - 1819, British) , Chemist
    Creator
    E. Mackenzie (1810, American) , Engraver
    After
    Carl Frederik von Breda (1759 - 1818, Swedish) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of James Watt, inclined to the left as viewed, his right hand touching his face, the index finger raised. The sitter wears a coat and waistcoat, with a cravat.

    Frontispiece illustration [plate not numbered], The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.23, (1805-1806).

    Inscribed below, ‘James Watt Esq. F.R.S. C.F. de Breda pinxt. E. Mackenzie sc. Publish’d by A. Tilloch Jany. 1. 1806.’.

    James Watt (1736-1819), British chemist and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785.
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