Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2225
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Portrait of Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande
Date
1789
Sitter
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732 - 1807, French) , Astronomer
Creator
R. Stanier (British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 204mm
width (print): 133mm
width (print): 133mm
Subject
Description
Oval head and shoulders portrait of Lalande, wearing a wig and shown half-face to the right as viewed.
Inscribed: “European Magazine. Stanier sculpt. Jme. DE LALANDE, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, Berlin, Petersburgh, &c. Published by T.Sewell Cornhill, 1 November 1789.”
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Inscribed: “European Magazine. Stanier sculpt. Jme. DE LALANDE, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, Berlin, Petersburgh, &c. Published by T.Sewell Cornhill, 1 November 1789.”
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
Transcription
European Magazine. Stanier sculpt. Jme. DE LALANDE, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, Berlin, Petersburgh, &c. Published by T.Sewell Cornhill, 1 November 1789
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.43.
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