Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21126

    Portrait of Jesse Ramsden

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Jesse Ramsden (1735 - 1800, British) , Instrument maker
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Jesse Ramsden, turned slightly to the left as viewed and looking to the viewer. He wears a buttoned coat and cravat. Presented in an oval.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803).

    Inscribed below, ‘Mr. Ramsden. Engraved by C. Knight from an original in the possession of Mr. Colnaght. London. Published Augst. 31. 1803. By A. Tilloch, Carey Street.’.

    Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), British instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1786.
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