Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by M. Salvador Carmona, 1763, after R. Gardelle, 1754.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Engraving.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with a vignette of his tomb in Geneva. Stipple engraving by J. Caldwall, 1801, after A. Ramsay, 1766.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Stipple engraving by L.F. Mariage after F. Bonneville.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving, 1780, after E. Ficquet after M. Q. de La Tour.

The tomb of J.J. Rousseau, on an island in the gardens of Ermenonville. Engraving by J.F. Cazenave.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Stipple engraving by R. Hart after M.-Q. de La Tour.

In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.

The tomb of J.J. Rousseau, on an island in the gardens of Ermenonville. Engraving, 1779.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Photogravure.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Stipple engraving by J.-B. Vérité after a bust.

Disquisitio inauguralis medica novum sistens argumentum contra celebrem Russavii doctrinam de hominis animalitate cultura ingenii praestantiore / [Johann Konrad Beckhaus].

The legacy of Rousseau / edited by Clifford Orwin and Nathan Tarcov.

Justice and difference in the works of Rousseau : bienfaisance and pudeur / Judith Still.

A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.

La botanique de J.J. Rousseau contenant tout ce qu'il a écrit sur cette science; l'exposition de la méthode botanique de M. de Jussieu; la manière de former les herbiers / par M. Haüy.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / by the celebrated J. J. Rousseau ; Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes / by Jean Jacques Rousseau ; edited with introduction and marginal summaries, by Henri François Muller and René E.G. Vaillant.

Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau] / By Thomas Martyn.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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La botanique de J.J. Rousseau contenant tout ce qu'il a écrit sur cette science; l'exposition de la méthode botanique de M. de Jussieu; la manière de former les herbiers / par M. Haüy.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / by the celebrated J. J. Rousseau ; Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes / by Jean Jacques Rousseau ; edited with introduction and marginal summaries, by Henri François Muller and René E.G. Vaillant.

Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau] / By Thomas Martyn.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Images from the collections

Images by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Images featuring Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Works from the collections

La botanique de J.J. Rousseau contenant tout ce qu'il a écrit sur cette science; l'exposition de la méthode botanique de M. de Jussieu; la manière de former les herbiers / par M. Haüy.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / by the celebrated J. J. Rousseau ; Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes / by Jean Jacques Rousseau ; edited with introduction and marginal summaries, by Henri François Muller and René E.G. Vaillant.

Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau] / By Thomas Martyn.

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