Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21136

    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
    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.
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