Portrait of Yekaterina Romanovna Voronsova Dashkova
Date
1804
Sitter
Yekaterina Romanovna Voronsova Dashkova (1743 - 1810, Russian) , Aristocrat
Creator
Charles Knight (1743, British) , Engraver
After
Dmitry Levitsky (1735 - 1822, Russian) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Yekaterina Dashkova, half turned to the left as viewed, looking directly to the viewer. She wears a light-coloured dress with a darler robe, with a ribbon and star. There is a small portrait (of Catherine the Great?) at her left breast.
The accompanying note states that ‘We intended to have given the life of this lady, latterly directress of the Imperial Academy of Russia, along with the portrait that appears in the present number of our work; but not having been able yet to meet with sufficient materials, we must defer it.’.
Plate [not numbered] illustrating the notice ‘The Princess Dashkoff’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1804), p.95.
Inscribed below, ‘Princess Dashkoff. Directress of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Petersburgh. Engraved by Knight from a Portrait by Mair, Engraver to the Academy of Sciences, Petersburgh. 73’.
Yekaterina Romanovna Voronsova Dashkova (1743-1810), Russian aristocrat, considered to be the first woman to lead a national science academy, the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1783.
The accompanying note states that ‘We intended to have given the life of this lady, latterly directress of the Imperial Academy of Russia, along with the portrait that appears in the present number of our work; but not having been able yet to meet with sufficient materials, we must defer it.’.
Plate [not numbered] illustrating the notice ‘The Princess Dashkoff’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1804), p.95.
Inscribed below, ‘Princess Dashkoff. Directress of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Petersburgh. Engraved by Knight from a Portrait by Mair, Engraver to the Academy of Sciences, Petersburgh. 73’.
Yekaterina Romanovna Voronsova Dashkova (1743-1810), Russian aristocrat, considered to be the first woman to lead a national science academy, the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1783.
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