Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 ' An orange seller trying

' An orange seller trying to sell her produce to a passing gentleman

Compters were small prisons controlled by a sheriff

A general view of York Minster

16th October 1962

Found in the collection of the Israel Museum

Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 ' An orange seller tryingThree quarter length seated portrait of Sir William Fairbairn. The engineer holds a quill pen in his right hand, the left elbow leaning against a table to the sitter's left, his face leaning lightly on his left hand. The table is covered in a green cloth and contains a glass inkwell held on a silver stand with a second quill. There is an angled writing stand with papers on it. Another set of papers to the foreground is headed: 'Observations of the