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Renatus Des-Cartes
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
photograph
Europe: United Kingdom
Early-Mid 20th c.
card; cardboard; glass; string
image without mount: 186 mm x 122 mm; overall: 305 mm x 254 mm

Reproduction of an engraved portrait of the philosopher Rene Descartes, drawn from life in the 1640s, shown head and shoulders, facing the viewer in an oval surround, wearing a buttoned-up jacket and plain collar, taken from the frontispiece of the 1659 Latin edition of La géométrie. Latin inscription beneath. Mounted and glazed in a display frame. Strung for hanging on the reverse.


2014.664

Gift of The City University, 2014



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