Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11209

    Portrait of Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Jean Jacques d' Ortous de Mairan (1678 - 1771, French) , Physicist
    Creator
    Pierre Charles Ingouf (1746 - 1800, French) , Engraver
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 268mm
    width (print): 189mm
    height (paper support): 295mm
    width (paper support): 244mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, in an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘DE MAIRAN, P C Ingouf maj Sculps’ and pencilled ‘Born 1678, Elec 1735, died 1771’.

    Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1735.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.50

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