Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2235
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Portrait of Aylmer Bourke Lambert
Date
late 18th century[?]
Sitter
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761 - 1842, British) , Botanist
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
William Holl (1771 - 1838, British) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 216mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
Description
Oval head and shoulders portrait of Lambert shown half-face to the right as viewed, looking slightly upward. His left arm rests of a volume of Systema naturae by Linnaeus. The portrait is framed by plant specimens.
Inscribed above: “AYLMER BOURKE LAMBERT.” In pencil lower left: “1791”.
Aylmer Bourke Lambert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Inscribed above: “AYLMER BOURKE LAMBERT.” In pencil lower left: “1791”.
Aylmer Bourke Lambert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Transcription
AYLMER BOURKE LAMBERT
1791
1791
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.44.
Associated place