Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12171

    Portrait of Jean Bernoulli

    Date
    ca. 18th century
    Sitter
    Jean Bernoulli (1667 - 1748, Swiss) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 128mm
    width (plate): 81mm
    height (print): 131mm
    width (print): 86mm
    height (paper support): 143mm
    width (paper support): 89mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Jean Bernoulli in three quarter profile to the right as viewed. He wears full length curled wig and is dressed in jacket with cape draped over shoulders.

    Inscribed ‘JEAN BERNOUILLI, ni en 1667 morten 1748’ and pencilled ‘1712’.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.6
    Associated place
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