Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) mb-artistname Janet Archer McKendrick

McKendrick

Beer Street celebrates the virtues of the mildly intoxicating traditional national drink

showing the City of London

enclosed in an inscribed oval frame surmounted by a coat of arms with the motto 'Non Lethum Leti' and decorated with acanthus

Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) mb-artistname Janet Archer McKendrickFull length seated portrait of Fontenelle dressed in loose robes and turban holding a quill pen in his right hand, the left arm leaning against a table upon which stands a globe and inkwells. Inscribed: 'Guilleinot del. Chollet sc.' Inscribed in pencil lower left '1732 Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle 1657 to 1757'. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1732. Original: engraving. ca. 1830s