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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), Dr. John Fothergill, 1782
- Title:
Dr. John Fothergill
- Additional Title(s):
John Fothergill M.D. F.R.S.
- Date:
- 1782
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 5/16 x 6 7/16 inches (23.6 x 16.4 cm), Plate: 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches (20.7 x 13.3 cm), Image: 4 5/16 x 3 7/16 inches (11 x 8.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "Juer 1790"; far lower right: "2/6"
Lettered, center left on oval: "R.d Livesay pine[?r]"; center right on oval: "F. Bartolozzi sculp:"; center: "JOHN FOTHERGILL M.D. F.R.S."; lower center: (in latin) "Cui suas artes, sua dona laetus | Et herbam et Venae salientis ictum | Scire concefsit, celerem et medendi | Delius usum."; lowest center: "From a Bust in the Possesion of D.r Lettsom"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.608
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buttons | coat | medicine | oval | physician | portrait | science | wig
- Associated Places:
- England | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Fothergill, John (1712–1780), physician and naturalist
Lettsom, John Coakley (1744–1815), physician and philanthropist - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:52134
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