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Denis Papin

Collection:  SCM - Art
Object Name:  oil painting; portrait
Maker:  Unattributed; Engilhard, Johann
Place Made:  Europe
Date Made:  1850-1859
Materials:  oil paint on canvas
Measurements:  frame: 1145 mm x 945 mm x 95 mm; image: 913 mm x 710 mm

Description:  Painting. [Denis Papin (1647-c1712)] / 185-?. Oil on canvas; 91.3x71cm in gilt frame 114.5x94.5x9.5cm. - From the original of 1689 by Johann Engilhard in the University of Marburg, Germany. Portrait, HS, holding a book open at a folding plate with a diagram of his 'digester'; probably frontispiece to his 'A new digester or engine for softening the bones', 1681 (French edition 1688). Inscribed on verso, DIONYSIUS PAPIN M.D. MOTE PROFARDA JUNE 1689. autoclave;

Object Number:  1903-173

Credit Line:  Bennet Woodcroft Bequest

4 Related People

Engilhard, Johann
active 1689, artist, German?
University of Marburg
1527-current (2010), university, Marburg, Germany, German
Papin, Denis
1647-1712?, physicist; natural philosopher, French
Unattributed
Unattributed
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