[Horace Hayman Wilson, Esq M.A. F.R.S. Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, Boden Professor of Sanscrit, Oxford, &c.]
[Engraved by W,m Walker, from a Painting by Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A. &c.]
[London: Published 4.th June 1851, by M.r Walker, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 400mm (20 x 15¾"), large margins. Some surface soiling. Time staining at top.
A seated portrait of orientalist Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860). After studying medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, he went to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the East India Company. In 1832 he became the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit; he also taught at the East India Company College, becoming librarian to the East India Company in 1836.
O'D 509 i. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66112] £360.00
[London: Published 4.th June 1851, by M.r Walker, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 400mm (20 x 15¾"), large margins. Some surface soiling. Time staining at top.
A seated portrait of orientalist Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860). After studying medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, he went to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the East India Company. In 1832 he became the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit; he also taught at the East India Company College, becoming librarian to the East India Company in 1836.
O'D 509 i. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66112] £360.00