Portrait of Joseph Hume (1777-1855) Size:L: 80 x 60cm in Embankment Gardens

in Embankment Gardens

Dedicated to Joseph Taylor Esquire

with Leo (the lion)

At the top is an elevation view of the building

Scarborough

Portrait of Joseph Hume (1777-1855) Size:L: 80 x 60cm in Embankment GardensHalf length portrait of Hume, seated, with a table of books on his right side [viewers' left]. Hume is shown wearing a dark jacket and decorated waistcoat over a white shirt and black tie. Inscribed: '9 [upper right] ENGRAVED BY W. HOLL. From a Painting by G. P. A. Healy. LONDON, JOHN SAUNDERS, JUNR. 7 DYERS BUILDINGS, HOLBORN BARS.' Inscribed in pencil lower left '1771 [struck through] 1818' Joseph Hume was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in