Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 16th October 1962

16th October 1962

Compters were small prisons controlled by a sheriff

showing a white shirt and neck-cloth

Jerry Heard

the London lunatic asylum

Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 16th October 1962Three quarter length seated portrait of Sir William Fairbairn. The engineer holds a quill pen in his right hand, the left elbow leaning against a table to the sitter's left, his face leaning lightly on his left hand. The table is covered in a green cloth and contains a glass inkwell held on a silver stand with a second quill. There is an angled writing stand with papers on it. Another set of papers to the foreground is headed: 'Observations of the