Portrait of Henry Savile
Date
1796
Sitter
Henry Savile (1549 - 1622, British) , Mathematician
Creator
the younger Geeraerts (1561 - 1635, Flemish) , Engraver
After
Sylvester Harding (1745 - 1809, British) , Painter
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 350mm
width (print): 250mm
width (print): 250mm
Subject
Description
Full-length portrait of Henry Savile, in an unknown interior, his left hand resting on a book on a table. He wears full academic dress.
Inscribed below: ‘S Harding del Clamp &c
SR. HENRY SAVILLE,
by Marcus Garret From an Original Picture in the Bodleian Gallery Oxford […]’
Engraving 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: ‘S Harding del Clamp &c
SR. HENRY SAVILLE,
by Marcus Garret From an Original Picture in the Bodleian Gallery Oxford […]’
Engraving 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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