Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Bettoni (?).

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Alexandre Volta ... Dessiné d'après le portrait original de Nicolo Bettoni, et gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.

Believed by the engraver Tardieu to be a portrait by Nicolo Bettoni. Tardieu may have been referring to the engraving of Volta with the publisher's imprint "Per Nicolo Bettoni", and thought him to be the portrait painter

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3083.5

Wellcome Collection 9480i