Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10405
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Portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Date
1885-1886
Sitter
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807 - 1873, Swiss) , Palaeontologist
Creator
Monogrammist R. L. (1800, American) , Printmaker
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 255mm
width (print): 185mm
width (print): 185mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Louis Agassiz, apparently seated, looking to the right as viewed and with his left thumb hooked into his hip pocket.
Reprinted in an advertising flyer for the magazine Science aimed at members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1885-1886. The print is initialled lower left “R.L” and inscribed lower right “LEWIS ENG. Co, BOSTON.” Below the main image is a facsimile signature and what is presumably the original date of publication: “SCIENCE, October 16, 1885.”
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Reprinted in an advertising flyer for the magazine Science aimed at members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1885-1886. The print is initialled lower left “R.L” and inscribed lower right “LEWIS ENG. Co, BOSTON.” Below the main image is a facsimile signature and what is presumably the original date of publication: “SCIENCE, October 16, 1885.”
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
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