Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17180

    Portrait of Heinrich, Count Rantzau

    Date
    ca.1589
    Sitter
    Count Heinrich Rantzau (1526 - 1598, German) , Statesman
    Creator
    Hendrick Goltzius (1558 - 1617, Dutch) , Printmaker
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    v6 p95
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (Plate): 185mm
    width (Plate): 138mm
    Subject
    Description
    Portrait of Henrik, Count of Rantzau (Henricus Rantzovius), by Hendrik Goltzius (c. 1589). Framed with coloured slips of decorative pattern.

    Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598) was a German humanist, writer, statesman and astrologer. He worked closely with Tycho Brahe.

    From a set of albums known as Collectanea Newtoniana, a selection of prints, original artwork and manuscripts relating to Newton, collected by Charles Turnor (1768-1853). Turnor was an astronomer, collector and Fellow of the Royal Society. He owned Woolsthorpe Manor (Newton’s birthplace).
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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