| Description | Half-length portrait of John Somers wearing shoulder-length wig, dark robes and white shirt and cravat. The right hand is visible, the left hand obscured in the folds of the robe as he stands with left arm crooked. Behind, and to the left as viewed a bag containing the Great Seal, embroidered with the Royal coat of arms, rests on a table covered with a red cloth.
Inscribed ‘Engraved by T. A. Dean. LORD CHANCELLOR SOMERS, From a Picture by Sir G. Kneller in the possession of the Royal Society. Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London, Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall, East’. |