Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21221

    Portrait of Alexander Aubert

    Date
    1806
    Sitter
    Alexander Aubert (1730 - 1805, British) , Merchant
    Creator
    E. Mackenzie (1810, American) , Engraver
    After
    Samuel Drummond (1765 - 1846, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Alexander Aubert, body angled to the right as viewed, head turned to look directly at the viewer. Wearing a dark coat and cravat.

    Frontispiece illustration [plate not numbered], The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.24, (1806).

    Inscribed below, ‘ALEXR. AUBERT ESQR. F.R.S. Drummond pinxt. E. Mackenzie sculp. Published by A. Tilloch 1 June 1806.’.

    Alexander Aubert (bap. 1730 d. 1805), British merchant and astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1772.
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