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
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.
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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