Portrait of Thomas Bugge
Date
ca. late 18th early 19th century
Sitter
Thomas Bugge (1740 - 1815) , Astronomer
Creator
Konrad Westermayr (1765, German) , Engraver
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 136mm
width (plate): 80mm
height (print): 178mm
width (print): 103mm
height (paper support): 225mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (plate): 80mm
height (print): 178mm
width (print): 103mm
height (paper support): 225mm
width (paper support): 152mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Bugge in left profile. He wears wig tied at the back and is dressing in high collared jacket with shirt and cravat. In an oval frame.
Inscribed ‘C Westermayr fecit. THOMAS BUGGE Kön: Dän: first: Rath, Professor d. Mathematick u Astronomic an der K. Universität zu Kopenhagen, und bey der Königl. Marine. Mitglied mehrerer Akadem. D. Wissenschaften’ and pencilled ‘1788’.
Thomas Bugge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.8
Inscribed ‘C Westermayr fecit. THOMAS BUGGE Kön: Dän: first: Rath, Professor d. Mathematick u Astronomic an der K. Universität zu Kopenhagen, und bey der Königl. Marine. Mitglied mehrerer Akadem. D. Wissenschaften’ and pencilled ‘1788’.
Thomas Bugge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.8
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