William Ruddiman. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon after J. Smart.

Smart, John, 1741-1811.

Date:: [between 1793 and 1813]

Reference:: 647163i

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William Ruddiman. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon after J. Smart. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Physician to Mohammad Ali Wallajah (1717-1795), Eighth Nawab of the Carnatic, whose residence Chepauk Palace in Madras (Chennai) was hospitable to many men of learning and British visitors. An Indian landscape appears in the background

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1793 and 1813]

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 30.3 x 19.1 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Dr. William Ruddiman. Late Physician to His Highness the Nauwab Wallajah of the Carnatic, and in the service of the Honble. East India Company on the Coromandel Coast. Drawn by J. Smart ; Engrav'd by Anth.y Cardon

Edition

Open letter proof.

References note

F. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, vol. III, London 1912, p. 623 (as a private plate)

Not in R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973

Reference

Wellcome Collection 647163i

Creator/production credits

The limner John Smart was in Madras (and possibly Calcutta and Lucknow) between 1788 and about 1793 (S. Redgrave, Dictionary of artists of the English school, p. 398), when Ruddiman was presumably also in Madras

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