Portrait of Blaise Pascal
Date
1802
Sitter
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662, French) , Mathematician
Creator
Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736 - 1807, French) , Engraver
After
Augustin Pajou (1730 - 1809, French) , Sculptor
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 140mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Blaise Pascal, bases on a sculpture bust. The sitter is presented in profile, facing right as viewed, within a circular framing device.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.14, as Weld’s text notes that ‘…in 1648, Pascal, by his celebrated experiment on the Puy de Dome, established, the theory of atmospheric pressure beyond dispute.’
Inscribed: ‘BSE. PASCAL’. Inscribed below: ‘Aug. St. Aubin fecit’.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.14, as Weld’s text notes that ‘…in 1648, Pascal, by his celebrated experiment on the Puy de Dome, established, the theory of atmospheric pressure beyond dispute.’
Inscribed: ‘BSE. PASCAL’. Inscribed below: ‘Aug. St. Aubin fecit’.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 1... (London, John W. Parker, 1848) grangerized by the writer and collector Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847–1916) into 8 volumes, adding illustrative material and manuscript items to Weld's text. The books were initially owned by Ludwig Mond FRS (1839–1909), and according to an inscription by his son Robert Ludwig Mond FRS (1867–1938) they were intended for presentation to the Society. This eventually happened in late 1959, the donor being the politician Harry Nathan (1889–1963), Lord Nathan of Churt.
Related fellows
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
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