General Portraits

7x10 cm

John Hope (1725-1786) Scottish physician and botanist. Noted for his work on plant classification but did not publish any works and is best known as a supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. The genus Hopea is named after him.
Etching by John Kay dated 1786, published in A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings by the late John Kay, miniature Painter, Edinburgh. Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, Edinburgh. 1838. 
Hand coloured.