Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13840

    The study at Woolsthorpe Manor

    Date
    late 18th century - early 19th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 148mm
    width (print): 266mm
    Content object
    Description
    Interior view of the study at Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, England. An unfurnished room with a fireplace in the far right corner next to a window on the right hand wall as viewed. A separate room partitioned off with wooden panelling in the far left hand corner.

    Woolsthorpe Manor is the birthplace of Isaac Newton. This was the room used by Newton when visiting the family home.

    Painting from Collectanea Newtoniana by Charles Turnor, 1837. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton.

    Volume 1 contains portraits of Sir Isaac Newton, notably watercolour copies of several contemporary works. Also, paintings of houses and objects associated with Newton, with genealogical information and biography. Title page: "Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men who were connected with, or whose pursuits bore an affinity to those of that illustrious person from the time of Copernicus to the Death of Newton accompanied with a Memoir of each. Collected arranged and compiled by Charles Turnor F.R.A.S. & F.S.A. Predendary of Lincoln. AD MDCCCXXXVII." Collection and supporting text is presented on leaves with decorative borders. Beneath the title page of volume 1 "Arms painted by Thos Dowse, 39 Upper Charlotte St. Fitzroy Square". There is a dedication page [p.4] addressed to the Royal Society and presenting the volumes.
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