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James Smithson: Science and Technology\Scientist\Chemist
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Museum of American History Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.85.44
Provenance
M. de la Batut, of Belz, France, “half-brother of the nephew of James Smithson,” offering it for sale; purchased by Smithsonian; transferred to NPG 1985
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution…for the Year 1877 [publ. 1878], p.9.