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                                 Image number: RS.2318
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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                                19th century
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Mathematician
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 295mm
width (print): 214mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 214mm
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                                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.
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                                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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