Portrait of Placidus Fixlmillner
Date
1801
Sitter
Placidus Fixlmillner (1721 - 1791, Austrian) , Astronomer
Creator
K Mackenzie, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Placidus FixlMillner, facing, angled to the right as viewed. In ecclesiastical dress and cap, with a curtain above. Presented within an oval frame.
Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.5, (1799-1800).
Inscribed below, ‘Placidus Fixlmillner. Mackenzie sc. 1801’.
Placidus Fixlmillner (1721-1791) Austrian astronomer and monk, who made early computations of the orbit of Uranus.
Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.5, (1799-1800).
Inscribed below, ‘Placidus Fixlmillner. Mackenzie sc. 1801’.
Placidus Fixlmillner (1721-1791) Austrian astronomer and monk, who made early computations of the orbit of Uranus.
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