Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9563
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Portrait of George Fordyce
Date
1795
Sitter
George Fordyce (1736 - 1802, British) , Physician, Physician
Creator
George Keating (1762 - 1842, Irish) , Physician
After
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845, British) , Painter
Object type
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 269mm
width (print): 224mm
width (print): 224mm
Subject
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Description
Half length portrait of Fordyce wearing a fur trimmed robe and holding in his left hand a volume “Treatise on Fever".
Trimmed, original inscription on a separate paper slip: “GEORGE FORDYCE. M:D. F:R;S. Senior Physician of St. Thomas’s Hospital.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1776”:
George Fordyce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776.
Trimmed, original inscription on a separate paper slip: “GEORGE FORDYCE. M:D. F:R;S. Senior Physician of St. Thomas’s Hospital.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1776”:
George Fordyce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776.
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.21. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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