Portrait of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Date
1824
Sitter
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778 - 1841) , Botanist
Creator
Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Printmaker
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 145mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 150mm
width (print): 145mm
height (paper support): 226mm
width (paper support): 150mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle inclined to the left as viewed. He wears regency-style jacket with waistcoat, shirt and cravat.
Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’après Nature à Paris en 1824, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. AUGIN. PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE (Botaniste), Professeur à l’Académie de Genève, Correspondant de l’Institut de France Membre des sociétés royales de Londres, Edinburgh, Munich &a. Né à Genève le 4 Février 1778’ and pencilled ‘elec 1822 Died 1841.’
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) was a Swiss botanist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.11.
Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’après Nature à Paris en 1824, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. AUGIN. PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE (Botaniste), Professeur à l’Académie de Genève, Correspondant de l’Institut de France Membre des sociétés royales de Londres, Edinburgh, Munich &a. Né à Genève le 4 Février 1778’ and pencilled ‘elec 1822 Died 1841.’
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) was a Swiss botanist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.11.
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