Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.3358

    Portrait of Peter Mark Roget

    Date
    c.1836
    Sitter
    Peter Mark Roget (1779 - 1869, British) , Lexicographer
    Creator
    William Drummond (British) , Lithographer
    After
    Eden Upton Eddis (1812 - 1901, British) , Draughtsman
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 110mm
    width (print): 110mm
    Subject
    Art & culture
       > Literature
          > Lexicography
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Peter Mark Roget in a dark jacket, white shirt and black bowtie. He is shown with short, neat hair and is turned slightly towards his left, looking out towards the viewer.

    Inscribed below: ‘E. U. Eddis del.’ ‘W.D lith’ ‘P. M. Roget’ ‘Athenæum Portraits No 43.’ ‘Day & Hague lithrs to the King’ ‘London Pubd by Thos McLean 26, Haymarket.’

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