Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12180

    Portrait of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

    Date
    ca. early 19th century
    Sitter
    Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752 - 1840) , Natural historian
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 211mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed looking off to distance. He wears regency-style jacket with high collared shirt and cravat. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Desiné st Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu d’aprés le Portrait original de Riep. JEAN FIC. BLUMENBACH (Médecin, Anatomiste et Physiologiste), Member correspondant de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1er. Professeur de la Faculté de Médecine de Goettingue, Secrétaire de la Société royale des Sciences de cette ville c. Né à Gotha (Royme. De Saxe_ le n Mai 1752’ and pencilled ‘Elected to Royal Soc 1793.’

    Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.7
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