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Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight

William Evans, 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.

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Title of artwork, date

Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight, 1810

Date supported

1933

Medium and material

Pencil

Dimensions

30 x 24 cm

Gifted by

G A Simonson

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