Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.1632
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Portrait of Johann Heinrich Hampe
Date
18th century
Sitter
Johann Heinrich Hampe (1697 - 1777, German) , Physician
Creator
Thomas Burke (1749 - 1815, Irish) , Printmaker
After
Angelica Kauffmann (1741 - 1807, Swiss)
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 293mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of J H Hampe in an oval frame. Below is am inscription in Greek wound around a staff and laurel sprig. A snake is also coiled around the staff in the manner of the rod of Asclepius.
Inscribed “Angelica Kauffmann pinx. T Burke fecit”. With a 27-line inscription below, commencing: “IOHANNES HENRICUS HAMPE SIEGENA-NASSOVICUS MEDICINAE DOCTOR DUIBURGENSIS CLIVORUM…”
Johann Heinrich Hampe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
Inscribed “Angelica Kauffmann pinx. T Burke fecit”. With a 27-line inscription below, commencing: “IOHANNES HENRICUS HAMPE SIEGENA-NASSOVICUS MEDICINAE DOCTOR DUIBURGENSIS CLIVORUM…”
Johann Heinrich Hampe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
Transcription
Angelica Kauffmann pinx. T Burke fecit”. With a 27-line inscription below, commencing: “IOHANNES HENRICUS HAMPE SIEGENA-NASSOVICUS MEDICINAE DOCTOR DUIBURGENSIS CLIVORUM…”
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.31. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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