Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2318
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Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Date
19th century
Sitter
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Mathematician
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Dimensions
height (print): 295mm
width (print): 214mm
width (print): 214mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Leibniz, wearing a shoulder length wig, lace cravat.
Inscribed: “Dessiné et Gravé d’apres l’originale par Boutrois et Adam G.LEIBNIZ Né en 1646 mort en 1716”. In pencil, lower left: “El. 1673”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1673.
Inscribed: “Dessiné et Gravé d’apres l’originale par Boutrois et Adam G.LEIBNIZ Né en 1646 mort en 1716”. In pencil, lower left: “El. 1673”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1673.
Transcription
Dessiné et Gravé d’apres l’originale par Boutrois et Adam G.LEIBNIZ Né en 1646 mort en 1716
El. 1673
El. 1673
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), p.45.
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