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Image number: RS.5192
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Portrait of John Dunn Hunter
Date
1824
Sitter
John Dunn Hunter (1798 - 1827, British) , Author
Creator
Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850, British) , Lithographer
After
Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 279mm
width (print): 192mm
width (print): 192mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Hunter, face turned to the viewer’s left.
Inscribed: “Drawn by C.R.Leslie. Printed by C.Hullmandel. JOHN, D.HUNTER. London Published by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, 1824.” Inscribed in pencil lower left: “From Sir E.Sabine’s Collection.”
John Dunn Hunter (1798?-1827) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is known as the author of Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America (3rd ed., Longmans,1824) an account of being adopted by the Kansas and the Osage Native American tribes, following the death of his parents, who were killed by the Kickapoo. He returned to settler society in 1816, eventually visiting London in the 1820s. This portrait formed the frontispiece to that book.
Inscribed: “Drawn by C.R.Leslie. Printed by C.Hullmandel. JOHN, D.HUNTER. London Published by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, 1824.” Inscribed in pencil lower left: “From Sir E.Sabine’s Collection.”
John Dunn Hunter (1798?-1827) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is known as the author of Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America (3rd ed., Longmans,1824) an account of being adopted by the Kansas and the Osage Native American tribes, following the death of his parents, who were killed by the Kickapoo. He returned to settler society in 1816, eventually visiting London in the 1820s. This portrait formed the frontispiece to that book.
Transcription
Drawn by C.R.Leslie. Printed by C.Hullmandel. JOHN, D.HUNTER. London Published by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, 1824
From Sir E.Sabine’s Collection
From Sir E.Sabine’s Collection
Object history
From Sir Edward Sabine’s collection, donated 7 February 1884 [CMP/5 p.427]. Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.32.
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