Portrait of Leopoldo Nobili
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
Leopoldo Nobili (1784 - 1835, Italian) , Physicist
Creator
Pupil of Paolo Toschi (1788-1854) Italian draftsman and engraver Carlo Raimondi (1809, Italian) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 218mm
width (print): 187mm
height (paper support): 297mm
width (paper support): 248mm
width (print): 187mm
height (paper support): 297mm
width (paper support): 248mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Leopoldo Nobili.
Inscribed ‘C. Cosmi dipinse; C. Raimondi inc. nello Studio Toschi; LEOPOLDO NOBILI Fisico’ and pencilled ‘From Sir E. Sabine’s Collection’.
Leopoldo Nobili was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.55
Inscribed ‘C. Cosmi dipinse; C. Raimondi inc. nello Studio Toschi; LEOPOLDO NOBILI Fisico’ and pencilled ‘From Sir E. Sabine’s Collection’.
Leopoldo Nobili was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.55
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