Credit: © The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.9571
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of James Gibbs
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                                1762
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Sitter
                            
                            
                                James Gibbs (1682 - 1754, British) , Architect
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                Alexander Bannerman (1725 - 1784, British) , Engraver
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                After
                            
                            
                                William Hogarth (1697 - 1764, British) , Painter
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 266mm
width (print): 198mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 198mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Oval half length portrait of Gibbs with an open coat and open shirt collar, his right hand held loosely before his midriff. Behind, an architectural background. 
Inscribed: “A Bannerman sculp. JAMES GIBBS.-“ In pencil lower left “1729” and lower right “1/-”.
James Gibbs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed: “A Bannerman sculp. JAMES GIBBS.-“ In pencil lower left “1729” and lower right “1/-”.
James Gibbs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.25. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878. 
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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