Portrait of Jean-Claude Delamétherie
Date
1804
Sitter
Jean-Claude Delamétherie (1743 - 1817, French) , Geologist
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
After
Claude Jacques Notte (French) , Miniaturist
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Delamétherie, seated, and leaning with both elbows resting on a table with books. The sitter wears a white shirt, open at the neck, with a loose robe. He is shown bare-headed, with long hair behind, and a receding hairline. Presented in an oval.
Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1804).
Inscribed below, ‘J.C. Delamétherie. From an Original Painting by Notte. Published by A. Tilloch, Carey Street, 31st Augst. 1804’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Jean-Claude Delamétherie (1743-1817), French geologist and mineralogist, editor of the Journal de physique…
Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1804).
Inscribed below, ‘J.C. Delamétherie. From an Original Painting by Notte. Published by A. Tilloch, Carey Street, 31st Augst. 1804’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Jean-Claude Delamétherie (1743-1817), French geologist and mineralogist, editor of the Journal de physique…
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