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Catalog Number |
01.C.25 |
Object Name |
Engraving |
Title |
Engraving with Portrait of Peter Collinson |
Artist |
S. Trotter |
Date |
18th c. |
Description |
Bust-length oval frontal etching of figure in upper center of sheet. Figure wears a puffed shoulder length wig, a jacket, waist coat, and neckcloth. "PETER COLLINSON. F.R.S. SAS." arced outside bottom perimeter of portrait. Signed "Trotter. S." at bottom right, under portrait. At bottom in script: "Hinc, quce Natura negabat Visibus humanis Oculis ca Pectoris hausit. Cumque Animo, it vigili perspescerat omnia cura; In medium discenda dabat." In gilt, wooden frame behind glass. |
Label |
Peter Collinson was an 18th-century English merchant and botanist. He wrote a number of essays on natural history topics for British journals, and his extensive network of correspondents in Europe and North America placed Collinson at the nexus of the community of 18th-century European and American natural scientists. Collinson was known for his tireless support of the work of others and for his friendships with naturalists John Bartram and John Fothergill, and Benjamin Franklin. Collinson was also an early patron of the APS, although not a member. |
Medium |
Engraving |
Dimensions |
H-7.75 W-5.625 inches |
Credit line |
American Philosophical Society |
Search Terms |
18th century eighteenth century science scientist botany |