Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12130

    Portrait André Marie Ampère

    Date
    ca.1830s
    Sitter
    André-Marie Ampère (1775 - 1836, French) , Physicist
    Creator
    Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 212mm
    width (print): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of André Marie Ampère, inclined slightly to the right as viewed. He wears regency-style clothes of high collared shirt, jacket, waistcoat and cravat.

    Inscribed ‘Dessine d’aprés nature en 1825, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. ANDRÉ MARIE AMPÈRE (Mathématicien et Physicien), Membre de l’Académie des Sciences, Professeur au Collège royal de France et à l’Ecole polytechnique, des sociétés d’Edimbourg, de Cambridge, de Genève, Helvétique, etc. Né à Lyon (Dépt. Du Rhône) le 20 Janvier 1775’ and pencilled ‘born 1775, died 1836’.

    André Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.1
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