Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple.

  • Smith, John, of the Inner Temple.
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[1798]
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Credit: Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fweetnefs of temper; an excellent (r) phyfician, and equally re- markable, for his humourous writings, in (/) verfe, as well as (7) profe. A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF HIS WRITINGS. 'Tables of Ant lent Coins, THeights, and Meafures (u) explained eind exemplified, in feveral differ tat ions* 44 Treatife concerning the nature and choice of Aliments, 44 An Effay on the effects of Air on the Human Body.” 44 The Examination of Doctor JVoodwardts Account of the (x) De- luged' A* * This learned Treatife, was the full work Arbuthnott engaged in, upon his arrival in London; it appeared in the year, 1697, 9 Will* III. and laid the foundation of the Doctor's (y) literary fame. His (r) Pope used to say, that if it had not been for Doctor Arbuthnott, he should not have had sufficient health, to apply himself to study ; so that much of Mr. Pope’s writings must be allowed, to be owing to his care of him. Ayre’s Life of Pope II. 80. (s) For his humourous Poetry, see his Verses on Miss Nelly Burnett, in Hawkesw. Lett. II. 144; his burlesque of the lines of Durastanti or Cuzzoni; Colonel Char- tres’s Epitaph; and Verses on the Dust, under 26 June, 1714. (t) For his humourous Prose, see his u Altercation of the Ancients,” in Hawkesw. Lett. III. 14. Biogr. Brit. I. 249. Kipp. Edit. His censure of Whiston’s Projedt of the Longitude, under 17 July, 1714, ahd the following Anecdote : “ Charles Jarvis, the painter, who affedted to be a Freethinker, was one day talking very irreverently of the scriptures, Doctor Arbuthnott maintained to him, that he was not only a speculative, but a practical believer ; Jarvis denied it ; Arbuth- nott said, he would prove it, “ You stridfly observe the second Commandment,” said the Doctor, “ for in your pictures you make not the likeness of any thing, that is in the Heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.” Wal- pole, (Earl of Orford) Anec. of Paint. IV. 25. a. (u) Genth Mag. XIX. 119. b. Biogr. Brit. I. 239, Kipp. Edit. (a-) Gent. Mag. XI. 392. Biogr. Brit.ap. Kipp. I - 237.