Lithographed portrait of Waterhouse by Maguire, from the rare portfolio "Portraits of honorary members of the Ipswich Museum.

Ipswich: George Ransome; M. & N. Hanhart, 1851. 598 x 438 mm. (sheet); 290 x 242 mm. (image without facsimile signature). Signed in the stone by the artist; Waterhouse's facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Minor foxing. Portrait of British naturalist George R. Waterhouse, author of Part II (Mammalia) of Darwin's "Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle," and Keeper of the British Museum of Natural History's mineralogical department. From the rare portfolio titled "Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum", a series of scientific portraits lithographed by Thomas Herbert Maguire that featured prominent naturalists like Richard Owen, Murchison, Yarrell, and Gould, published to support the Ipswich Museum's scientific endeavors in Ipswich, UK.