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    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
    Creator
    Philibert Boutrois (French) , Engraver
    Adam (French) , Engraver
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 295mm
    width (print): 214mm
    Subject
    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.
    Transcription
    Dessiné et Gravé d’apres l’originale par Boutrois et Adam G.LEIBNIZ Né en 1646 mort en 1716
    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.
    Associated place
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