I«-' ) cxxvi. Portrait of Descartes 
APPENDIX G. 
CXXVI. 
Portrait of Descartes. 
167 O. 
Single sheet 19x24. cm., bound on the right edge, as if originally taken 
from a book. 
Portrait, 10 x 13 cm., enclosed in oval frame. Underneath, the following 
inscription : 
RENE DES CARTES Seigneur de Perron naquit 
l’An i yp6 Et mourut l’An 165*2 \Jtc\ en Suede, la Roy ne 
l’ayant faidl uenir auprès d’elle a caufe de Son 
excellent Scauoir dans les Sciences. 
lollain excudit, 1670. 
Listed\ together with letter XXIX above, as no. 235- in 
Thoipe 3 s c Catalogue of Autograph Correspondence 3 for 1833, the 
two being priced at seven shillings and sixpence. 
'The portrait is veiy similar to that reproduced by M. Cohen 
from an anonymous original in the ^University of Amsterdam, in 
Plate XLVII(following p. 604J of his Écrivains français, etc.