print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1850,0823.2
- Title
- Object: Sir William Jones's Disourses
- Description
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Portrait of Sir William Jones, bust-length to front in a frame, head turned to look to right, wearing cravat and his hair short and curled at his ears; after a painting by Arthur William Devis now in the British Library Oriental and India Office Collections; proof frontispiece to his 'Discourses delivered before the Asiatic Society' (London: 1821, edited by James Elmes). 1821
Stipple on chine collé, the frame engraved
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The portrait of Jones by Devis, was formerly in Earl Spencer's collection; now in the British Library (F840, India Office collection), painted in 1793 when Jones was 47; exh. RA 1806.
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Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Discourses delivered before the Asiatic Society
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0823.2
