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RefNoIM/003197
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TitleMounsey, James
ArtistSchmidt; Georg Friedrich (1712 - 1775); engraver
Date1762
DescriptionHalf-length seated portrait of James Mounsey in an interior setting, with a bookcase holding leather-bound volumes and collections of loose papers shown behind his right shoulder. A terrestrial globe can be seen behind his left arm, with a curtain draping down on top of it. Mounsey holds an open volume of ‘The Art’ by Hippocrates printed in both Latin and Greek and points at a section with his right index finger.
InscriptionContent‘G.F.Schmidt, Sculpt: Regis ad vivium fecit Petrop: 1762.’ ‘DECOR INTEGER’ ‘Jacobus Mounsey, / Sacræ Cæsariæ Majestatis Russiæ Consiliarius intimus & Medicus / Primarius nec non Cancellariæ totiusq: Facultatis Medicæ per Unipersum / Imperium Archiatrus et Director Supremus, Collegii Medici Regalis Edim- / -burgensus et Societatis Regalis Londinensis Socius. &c.’
ObjectNameEngraving
MaterialsBlack and white engraving
AccessStatusOpen
CopyrightThe Royal Society
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CodePersonNameDates
NA5807Mounsey; James (1700 - 1773)1700 - 1773
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