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
    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.
    Transcription
    MARQUIS OF TWEDALE
    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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