Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.5189
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Portrait of John Hay
Sitter
John Hay, 1st Marquis of Tweeddale (1626 - 1697, British) , Lord Chancellor of Scotland
After
Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Painter
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Dimensions
height (print): 251mm
width (print): 200mm
width (print): 200mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait, oval, the sitter shown with a moustache, dressed in ermine with a lace neck cloth and shoulder length wig.
Inscribed: “MARQUIS OF TWEDALE.” In pencil, lower left “1663”; lower right, “1/-“
John Hay, Earl of Tweeddale, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Inscribed: “MARQUIS OF TWEDALE.” In pencil, lower left “1663”; lower right, “1/-“
John Hay, Earl of Tweeddale, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Transcription
MARQUIS OF TWEDALE
1663
1/-
1663
1/-
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.30. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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