Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight

William Evans (active1797 - 1856)

British Museum

1810

Two portraits: 1) Joseph Planta, 1744-1828, Principal librarian at the British Museum, 1810; 2) Richard Payne Knight, 1748-1824, an early benefactor of the British Museum. One of five gifts of drawings to the British Museum by George Simonson between 1909 and 1936.

• Medium: pencil
• Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1933
• Presented by G A Simonson through The Art Fund

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