Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21009

    Portrait of Benjamin Thompson

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1918, American) , Physicist
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    After
    Moritz Kellerhoven (1758 - 1830, German) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Thompson, in profile, head turned to the left as viewed. Thompson wears a military coat, with ribbon and star.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.9, (1801).

    Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VI Vol.IX’. Inscribed below, ‘Count Rumford. Kellerhofen Pinxt. Mackenzie sculp.’.

    Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779.
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