Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.3044

    Portrait of John Perceval

    Date
    1743
    Sitter
    John Perceval (1660 - 1686, British) , Government official
    Creator
    John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 120mm
    width (print): 100mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Perceval within an oval frame. He is shown wearing a robe and a large wig.

    Inscribed below: ‘I Faber fecit. 1743’ ‘Sr. Jno: Perceval Bart. (sth. of that name) / Lord of Burton, Liscarrol, Kanturk, / Castle-Warning, and Oughterard &c. / Born 1660 Died 1686.’ Inscribed below crest: ‘YVERY’.

    Sir John Perceval, 3rd Baronet (1660–1686), British government official, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681.
    Object history
    Plate to ‘History of House of Yvery’.
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