General Portraits

15x23 cm

SIR WILLIAM JONES.
Engraved by J.Posselwhite from the Picture in the Hall of University College, Oxford.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, GLASGOW EDINBURGH, LONDON & NEW YORK. 
Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (1746-1794). Philologist. Kown for his contribution to our understanding of Indo-European languages. Wrote the Chess poem Caissa in 1763 at the age of 17.
Stipple engraving published in The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography by William Mackenzie. London Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1880.