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James Watson. Stipple engraving, 1817. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
James Watson. Stipple engraving, 1817.
- Date:
- June 1817
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- 9542i
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James Watson (1766-1838), radical insurrectionist and reformer, and sometime surgeon-apothecary. His appearance here differs markedly from the other portraits of him: hair not cropped but wavy, trimmed jacket and high collar, with the title "Dr"
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[Clerkenwell, London] (St John's Square) : W. Lewis, June 1817.
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1 print
Lettering
Dr Watson. From an original drawing, taken expressly for this work
References note
Not any of the three portraits of James Watson (1766-1838) mentioned in the Oxford dictionary of national biography, one after G. Scharf's painting in the British Museum and the other two by I.R. Cruikshank, including frontispiece to: [W. B. Gurney], A correct report of the trial of James Watson, senior, for high treason, London: printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3123.1
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Wellcome Collection 9542i
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