Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.3357

    Portrait of Peter Mark Roget

    Date
    c.1860
    Sitter
    Peter Mark Roget (1779 - 1869, British) , Lexicographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Art & culture
       > Literature
          > Lexicography
    Description
    Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Peter Mark Roget within an oval frame. Roget is seen within a photographic studio, wearing a dark jacket over a grey waistcoat and a black bowtie. He is looking directly out towards the viewer and is presented against a plain background.

    Annotated below in pencil: ‘ABrothers. Photo.’ ‘1815’ ‘Dr Roget’

    Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), British physician and lexicographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
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