Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11431

    Portrait of Hans Christian Oersted

    Date
    19th century
    Sitter
    Hans Christian Oersted (1777 - 1851, Danish) , Physicist
    Creator
    Hinchliff, Engraver
    After
    Hermann Wilhelm Bissen (1798, Danish) , Sculptor
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 188mm
    width (print): 123mm
    height (paper support): 228mm
    width (paper support): 151mm
    Description
    Portrait of Hans Christian Oersted from a bust.

    Inscribed ‘Bissen. Hinchliff. Oersted From a Bust in the possession of Dr. Wallich'.

    Hans Christian Oersted was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.58
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