Portrait of Romney Robinson

Method Stipple and engraving
Artist Robert Cromac
Published Published April 14th, 1809, by Thomas Payne, Pall Mall.
Dimensions Image 187 x 153 mm, Sheet 280 x 205 mm
Notes A full length portrait of Thomas Romney Robinson when a boy, standing, holding a lyre, and scattering flowers on the tomb of Romney the painter. This print is a plate to Hayley's Life of Romney.

The Rev. John Thomas Romney Robinson (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was a 19th-century astronomer and physicist. He was the longtime director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time.

O'Donoghue 1 ii/ii
Framing unmounted
Price £45.00
Stock ID 40340

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