Petrvs Mvsschenbroek

• J. J. Haid, German. After Jan Maurits Quinkhard
• Plate: 12.25 x 7.5 in.
  Mezzotint on laid paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.046
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A portrait of Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), a professor of natural philosophy and mathematics, dressed in elaborate garb, with his left hand on his chest.

Inscription

Philosophiae et Medecinae Doctor et Professor publicus ord. Philosophiae et Mathematum, in Academia Lugduno-Batava, natus Anno MDCXCII