Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21003

    Portrait of Roger Joseph Boscovich

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711 - 1787) , Physicist
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Roger Boscovich, in profile, facing to the left as viewed. viewed. In ecclesiastical dress and wig, with a dark cap, bands, and robe.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.6, (1800).

    Inscribed below, ‘Roger Joseph Boscovich. Mackenzie sc. 1801’.

    Roger Joseph Boscovich [Ruđer Josip Bošković] (1711-1787) Croatian physicist and astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1761.
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