Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13939

    Portrait of Nicolas Joseph Jacquin

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Nicolas Joseph Jacquin (1727 - 1817, Dutch) , Physician
    Creator
    Johann Conrad Krüger (1733 - 1791, German) , Engraver
    After
    Joseph Kreitzinger (1757 - 1829, German) , Painter
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 190mm
    width (print): 109mm
    height (paper support): 225mm
    width (paper support): 131mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Nicholas Joseph Jaquin in right profile. He wears buckled wig with queue and wears coat with necktie. In a round frame surmounted with ribbon and upon a pedestal inscribed with the sitters name.

    Inscribed ‘NICKLAS JOSEPH VON JACQUIN. Jos Kreitzinger pinx [?] J.C. Keüger sc: Berolini’ and pencilled ‘1788. Botanist.’

    Nicolas Joseph Jacquin (1727-1817) Dutch physician, 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, p35.
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