Credit: © The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.9538
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Lewis Weston Dillwyn
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                                1833
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Sitter
                            
                            
                                Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 - 1855, British) , Naturalist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator - Organisation
                            
                            
                                Graf & Soret, Lithographers
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                After
                            
                            
                                Eden Upton Eddis (1812 - 1901, British) , Painter
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 252mm
width (print): 173mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 173mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Head and shoulders portrait of L W Dillwyn, seated.  
Inscribed “E.U.Eddis delt.1833 Printed by Graf & Soret L.W.DILLWYN ESQR. M.P.” Pencil addition to this inscription: “F.R.S.” and lower left “1804”.
Lewis Weston Dillwyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed “E.U.Eddis delt.1833 Printed by Graf & Soret L.W.DILLWYN ESQR. M.P.” Pencil addition to this inscription: “F.R.S.” and lower left “1804”.
Lewis Weston Dillwyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804.
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.15. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878. 
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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