George Heriot. Engraving, 1791.

Date:
[1791]
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21270i
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Description

Founder of Heriot's Hospital, a school in Edinburgh; jeweler to King James VI

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1791]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image, oval 8 x 5.7 cm

Lettering

George Heriot Founder of the boys' hospital at Edinburgh. Aetat. suae 26 1589 ; R. Scott sculpt.

Creator/production credits

Artist's name indistinct in impression catalogued; taken from O'Donoghue, loc. cit.

References note

Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, vol. 2, London 1910, p. 514

Reference

Wellcome Collection 21270i

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