Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12206

    Portrait of Herman Boerhaave

    Date
    ca. mid 18th century
    Sitter
    Herman Boerhaave (1668 - 1738, Dutch) , Physician
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 115mm
    width (print): 94mm
    height (paper support): 169mm
    width (paper support): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Herman Boerhaave in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed and looking back to viewer. He wears gown with falling collar.

    Inscribed of separate paper ‘HERMAN BOERHAAVE, M.D. F.R.S.’ and pencilled ‘1730 Boerhave’ on paper support.

    Herman Boerhaave was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1730.

    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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