Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11884

    Portrait of Alessandro Volta

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827) , Physicist
    Creator
    Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Engraver
    After
    Nicolo Bottoni, Painter
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 215mm
    width (print): 144mm
    height (paper support): 224mm
    width (paper support): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Alessandro Volta in three quarter profile to the right as viewed, looking back to viewer. He wears high collared jacket with lace cravat and has two medals pinned to the left hand breast of his jacket. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’aprés le portrait original de Nicolo Bottoni et gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. ALEXANDRE VOLTA,(Physicien), Associé-étranger de l’Academie des Sciences de Paris Professeur à l’Université de Pavie, Né à le 171’ and pencilled ‘Elected 1791’.

    Alessandro was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791, he was awarded the Copley Medal in 1794.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.83
    Associated place
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