Portrait of James Burrow (1701-1782) mb-code 1645881 Illustration from Sun

Illustration from Sun

Plate from Animal locomotion or walking

View of houses on the north side of Fleet Street

who with his son Cesare

Portrait of James Burrow (1701-1782) mb-code 1645881 Illustration from SunThe sitter appears on an Italian style balcony with a landscape background of hills and woodland. A door behind the sitter is partly hidden by green drapery. Burrow is seated on a high backed green velvet covered chair with a foreground marble topped table. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions are on the table, bound in brown calf. The sitter's elbow rests on the second of these and holds the first volume upright, spine