Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21015

    Portrait of Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp

    Date
    1802
    Sitter
    Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752 - 1801, French) , Astronomer
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    After
    François Marie Rosset (1752, French) , Sculptor
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of P.J. de Beauchamp, in profile, looking to the right as viewed. The sitter is dressed in perhaps Turkish style, with a fur trimmed coat and loose turban, or headscarf. Presented within an oval frame.

    Plate 9 [not numbered] illustrating the ‘Biographical account of Joseph de Beauchamp, the astronomer. By De Lalande’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.12, (1802), pp.353-356.

    Inscribed below, ‘Jos de Beauchamp Astronomer. Engd. by Mackenzie from an Original Picture. Publish’d by A. Tilloch Carey Street June 1st. 1802.’.

    Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752-1801), French astronomer.
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