Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21135

    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
    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
    Associated place
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