Thomas Bell. Mezzotint by G. Zobel after Taples.

[London] (13, Queen St. Golden Sq.re) : Sawyer & Co.

1 print : mezzotint

Thomas Bell Esq., F.R.S. President of the Linnaean Society, Professor of Zoology King's College London, &c. &c. Painted by Taples. Engraved by Zobel.

"Taples" has not been identified. No artist of that name is listed in Algernon Graves, A dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions of oil paintings from 1760-1880, London 1884

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 236.2

Wellcome Collection 1002i