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Archibald Cameron. Mezzotint. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Archibald Cameron. Mezzotint.
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"Engraver not ascertained. Class II. Earlier portion eighteenth century. 13 (Archibald Cameron.) T.Q.L., standing, directed towards left, facing and looking to front, short wig, plain dress, right hand holding book open on table to left, left hand on hip, curtain in background to left. ... Similar to style of Faber, jun. Third son of John Cameron of Lochiel; became a physician; with his eldest brother, joined in the rising of 1745; after Culloden, both escaped to France, where the king gave the eldest the command of a regiment called the Regiment of Albany, in which Archibald took service, but returning to Scotland on his private affairs, in 1753, was apprehended, sent to London, tried, found guilty, and executed."-Chaloner Smith, loc. cit.
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1 print : mezzotint
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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/42/39
References note
John Chaloner Smith, Britisdh mezzotinto portraits, London, vol. 4, part 2, London 1882, p. 1681, no. 13
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 524.1
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Wellcome Collection 1610i
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