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Is. Dalby Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military College at Farnham.
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Delarom ~ The Fair Circassian. The present favorite companion of His Excellency The Persian Ambassador.
Engraved by Ja.s Thomson from an original Painting by an eminent Artist.
[n.d., c.1819.]
Stipple. 235 x 145mm (9¼ x 5¾").
A portrait of Delarom, the favourite companion of the Persian ambassador during his visit to London in 1819.
BM: 1901,1022.1512, with ''Published by John Bell for La Belle Assemblee August 2d. 1819''.
[Ref: 66841] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Ja.s Thomson from an original Painting by an eminent Artist.
[n.d., c.1819.]
Stipple. 235 x 145mm (9¼ x 5¾").
A portrait of Delarom, the favourite companion of the Persian ambassador during his visit to London in 1819.
BM: 1901,1022.1512, with ''Published by John Bell for La Belle Assemblee August 2d. 1819''.
[Ref: 66841] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)