Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.3072

    Portrait of James Bell Pettigrew

    Date
    c.1886
    Sitter
    James Bell Pettigrew (1834 - 1908, Scottish) , Naturalist
    Creator
    Unknown, Lithographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 160mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of James Bell Pettigrew as a young man, he is shown wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat with a white shirt, black tie and tie pin. He is seen looking directly out towards the viewer with a neat, dark beard and a side parting in his hair.

    Inscribed below: ‘Yours sincerely / J. Bell Pettigrew’

    James Bell Pettigrew (1834-1908), Scottish naturalist and anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. He delivered the Croonian lecture in 1860.
    Object history
    Enlarged from a portrait in the 'Provincial Medical Journal', May 1886.
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