Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9537
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    Portrait of Jean-Andre de Luc

    Date
    Early 19th century
    Sitter
    Jean-Andre De Luc (1727 - 1817, Swiss) , Geologist
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 297mm
    width (print): 244mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of an elderly De Luc dressed in a dark suit, balding but with long white hair to the shoulders.

    Inscribed in pencil “1773” and “J A de Luc” lower left and right respectively. Inscribed verso: “J A De Luc F.R.S. [chemist – struck through] Geologist 3/6”

    Jean-Andre de Luc was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773.
    Object history
    Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.16. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
    Associated place
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