Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12195

    Portrait of Peter Maria Augustus Broussonet

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    Peter Maria Augustus Broussonet (1761 - 1807, French) , Zoologist
    Creator
    Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Engraver
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 208mm
    width (plate): 130mm
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 140mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Peter Maria Augustus Broussonet inclined to the right as viewed and looking out to viewer. He wears regency-style jacket with high collar with braid details. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. PRE AUGTE MIE BROUSSONNET (Botaniste, Zoologiste et Médecin,) Membre de l’Académie des Sciences, Professeur à la Faculté de Montpellier, Né à Montpellier (Dépt. De l’Hérault) le 28 Février 1761, Mort à Montpellier le 27 Juillet 1807.’ And pencilled ‘1782’.

    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
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          > France
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