Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 Compters were small prisons controlled

Compters were small prisons controlled by a sheriff

showing a white shirt and neck-cloth

the London lunatic asylum

William Hogarth's tomb in St Nicholas' churchyard

Portrait of William Fairbairn (1789-1874) mb-height 4846 Compters were small prisons controlledThree 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