BIB_ID
285858
Accession number
MA 729.2
Creator
Dupin, Nicolas, b. 1753.
Published
Paris : Esnauts et Rapilly, 1774.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 178 x 121 mm
Notes
Bound in front of d'Alembert's Sur les couleurs qui se forment au foyer des lentilles (MA 729.1). The volume also includes an autograph letter from d'Alembert to an unidentified recipient (MA 729.3).
Summary
Head-and-shoulders oval portrait of French mathematician and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert, facing right. The portrait is surrounded by a frame decorated with flowers at the top and a plaque at the bottom.
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