Portrait of Henry Saville
Date
1839
Sitter
Henry Savile (1549 - 1622, British) , Mathematician
Creator
William Delamotte (1775 - 1863, British) , Printmaker
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Material
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Dimensions
height (page): 405mm
width (page): 270mm
width (page): 270mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Henry Savile, arms by his sides, turned slightly to the right [as viewed] and looking directly out at the viewer. He wears a brown smock, a black shawl, and a white ruff.
Inscribed below: ‘Sir Henry Savile W A Delamotte delf 1839’
Watercolour from MS/648/2, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622), British mathematician and classical scholar, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘Sir Henry Savile W A Delamotte delf 1839’
Watercolour from MS/648/2, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622), British mathematician and classical scholar, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Object history
Charles Turnor presented his Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men … to the Royal Society in 1837.
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