Antique engraving Portrait Sir William Jones Eminent Orientalist, Scholar 1804

A fine original early 19th-century hand-colored engraving of Sir William Jones (1746–1794), a distinguished British philologist, Orientalist, and jurist, best known for founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal and for proposing the Indo-European language family, revolutionizing the study of comparative linguistics.
Published in London in 1804 by Adlard & Jones, this elegant portrait shows Jones in classical dress, his thoughtful expression befitting his vast contributions to law, language, and the cultural exchange between East and West. Beneath the portrait is a symbolic vignette of two female allegories mourning over a plinth—emphasizing his revered status and intellectual legacy.
Size 13x19 cm