Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9520
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Portrait of Thomas Brand Hollis
Date
1807
Sitter
Thomas Brand Hollis (1714 - 1804, British) , Radical
Creator
E Bocquet, Engraver
After
Andrea Pozzi (1778, Italian) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 288mm
width (print): 204mm
width (print): 204mm
Description
Half length portrait in profile showing the sitter’s long and loosely tied hair.
Inscribed: “THOMAS BRAND-HOLLIS ESQ: F.R.S. and S.A. OF THE HYDE NEAR INGATEESTONE ESSEX. AGED XXXII.” A further [indistinct] inscription below: “From a drawing taken from life at Rome 1752 by -- Pozzi in the possession of John Disney D.D. F.S.A. Engraved 1807 by E. Bocquet.” Inscribed in pencil lower left T Brand Elec 1756.
Frontispiece to Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A....by John Disney (London, T Gillet, 1808).
Thomas Brand Hollis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756.
Inscribed: “THOMAS BRAND-HOLLIS ESQ: F.R.S. and S.A. OF THE HYDE NEAR INGATEESTONE ESSEX. AGED XXXII.” A further [indistinct] inscription below: “From a drawing taken from life at Rome 1752 by -- Pozzi in the possession of John Disney D.D. F.S.A. Engraved 1807 by E. Bocquet.” Inscribed in pencil lower left T Brand Elec 1756.
Frontispiece to Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A....by John Disney (London, T Gillet, 1808).
Thomas Brand Hollis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756.
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.8. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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