Portrait of Giorgio Baglivi
Date
1703
Sitter
Giorgio Baglivi (1668 - 1707, Italian) , Physician
Creator
Claude Duflos (1665, French) , Engraver
After
Carlo Maratti (1625, Italian) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 208mm
width (print): 141mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 151mm
width (print): 141mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 151mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Giorgio Baglivi slightly inclined to the right and looking back to the left as viewed. He wears short curled wig and he is dressed in jacket, overcoat and shirt with a short falling collar. Enclosed by a laurel wreath entwined with two snakes and surmounted by the sun and a phoenix rising out of flames below.
Inscribed ‘GEORGIUS BAGLIVUS E TAT.34 C. Duflos Sc. Parisus. Carolus Maratta inv:, delin., et autori amico D.D.D. Romae. 1703’
Giorgio Baglivi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.7
Inscribed ‘GEORGIUS BAGLIVUS E TAT.34 C. Duflos Sc. Parisus. Carolus Maratta inv:, delin., et autori amico D.D.D. Romae. 1703’
Giorgio Baglivi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.7
Associated place