[India] [John Forbes] With our love to you all I am my dearest Papa, Your ever afffectionate Vow [?] To John Forbes. Sir Charles Forbes, Bart.
From a Bust by H.Weekes. Engraved by Ja.s Thomson. [n.d., c.1800.] Stipple engraving. 310 x 260mm (12¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Portrait from a bust of John Forbes. The text mentions Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774-1849), Scottish politician, head of the first mercantile house in India, Forbes & Co. of Bombay, and a philanthropist.
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