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
width (print): 110mm
Subject
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.
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.