Prof. John Wilson

Category

Library Item

Item no

3610

Title

Prof. John Wilson

Description

A man who is a professor and a writer is seated, wears a jacket and rests his hand on a book.

Artist / maker

Hill, David Octavius

Date

1847

Size

19.7 x 14.5 cm

Type

Salted paper print

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Professor Wilson (1785-1854) was born to a wealthy family near Paisley, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. He was an influential thinker who wrote for Blackwood's Magazine, and became Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University, which caused some controversy. He wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher North, and his anti-reform views provoked opposition.

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