Portrait of Nicholas Saunderson
Date
1740
Sitter
Nicholas Saunderson (1682 - 1739, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Gerard Vandergucht (1696 - 1776, British) , Engraver
After
John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739, British) , Painter
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 221mm
width (print): 144mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 152mm
width (print): 144mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 152mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Saunderson, turned slightly to the left as viewed, wearing long wig and bands. He holds armillary sphere with both hands.
Frontispiece to Saunderson's The elements of algebra.
Inscribed ‘NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON LLD. Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. Died 19 Ap. 1739 Aged 56. I: Vanderbanck. Pinx.1718 From the Original painted for Martin Folkes Esqr. G: Vander Gucht. Sculp’ and pencilled ‘1718’.
Nicholas Saunderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.75
Frontispiece to Saunderson's The elements of algebra.
Inscribed ‘NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON LLD. Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. Died 19 Ap. 1739 Aged 56. I: Vanderbanck. Pinx.1718 From the Original painted for Martin Folkes Esqr. G: Vander Gucht. Sculp’ and pencilled ‘1718’.
Nicholas Saunderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.75
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