Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. Stipple engraving by J. Collyer, 1786, after J. Russell.

London (Charing Cross) : Published by W. Faden, Jan.y 9 1786.

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François Pilâtre de Rozier. President of the museum established at Paris in 1781 under the patronage of Monsieur and Madame … From an original picture in the position of Col.l Thornton (being the only portrait he would ever permit to be painted) by whose desire it is engraved to perpetuate the memory of that great man. … Painted by John Russell, crayon painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and engrav'd by Jos.h Collyer.

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2312.1

Holding a glass tube to his mouth, inspiring and expiring inflammable air, an experiment demonstrated before members of the Balloon Club in 1785

Wellcome Collection 7844i