Sir John Bowring (1792-1872) English political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot, and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong

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As well as being the 4th governor of Hong Kong; he is regarded as being one the world’s greatest hyperpolyglots: he claimed he knew 200 languages and could speak 100. He published works on the poetry of Russia; Poland; Spain; Serbia; Hungary; as well as descriptions of Batavia; Siam and the Philippines.
Lithographed after the original by Danial Maclise for ‘A gallery of illustrious literary characters (1830-1838)
drawn by the late Daniel Maclise, R.A., and accompanied by notices chiefly by the late William Maginn’, London 1873.
Republished from “Fraser’s magazine” in the 1830s.

Lithograph
1830s
Original image size approx. 160 x 220 mm
Digital image size 3512 x 4952 px
29.7 cm x 41.9 cm (300 ppi)