Joseph Cotton Esq.r F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House & a Director of the East India Company.
Painted by Sir Tho.s Lawrence RA Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Engraved by C. Turner Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 14. 1818 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), large margins.
Three quarter portrait of Joseph Cotton FRS (1745-1825), standing with books and papers including a map of the East India Docks. Cotton was a director of the East India Company (1795-1823), a director of the East India Docks Company (chairman in 1803), and a governor of the London Assurance Corporation. He was also deputy-master of Trinity House from 1803 for about twenty years. This portrait includes a map of the East India Docks dated 1803 in the lower right, with Cotton named as Chairman of the Company.
Whitman: 142. ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66172] £380.00
London, Pub.d Jan.y 14. 1818 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), large margins.
Three quarter portrait of Joseph Cotton FRS (1745-1825), standing with books and papers including a map of the East India Docks. Cotton was a director of the East India Company (1795-1823), a director of the East India Docks Company (chairman in 1803), and a governor of the London Assurance Corporation. He was also deputy-master of Trinity House from 1803 for about twenty years. This portrait includes a map of the East India Docks dated 1803 in the lower right, with Cotton named as Chairman of the Company.
Whitman: 142. ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66172] £380.00