Portrait of Chares Francois Brisseau de Mirbel
Date
1776
Sitter
Charles Francois Brisseau Mirbel (1776 - 1854, French) , Botanist
Creator
Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 150mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 153mm
width (print): 150mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 153mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Chares Francois Brisseau de Mirbel, turned to the right as viewed and looking off to distance. He wears dark jacket with white high collared shirt. In an oval frame.
Inscribed ‘Dessiné par Mme Mirbel et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. CHRS FOIS BRISSEAU MIRBEL (Botaniste), Membre de l’Académie royale des sciences. Né à Paris le 28 Mars 1776' and pencilled ‘Elec 1837. 71[?]’.
Chares Francois Brisseau de Mirbel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1837.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.51
Inscribed ‘Dessiné par Mme Mirbel et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. CHRS FOIS BRISSEAU MIRBEL (Botaniste), Membre de l’Académie royale des sciences. Né à Paris le 28 Mars 1776' and pencilled ‘Elec 1837. 71[?]’.
Chares Francois Brisseau de Mirbel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1837.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.51
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