Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19506

    Portrait of John Ray

    Date
    1760
    Sitter
    John Ray (1627 - 1705, English) , Naturalist
    Creator
    William Hibbart (1720 - 1800, British) , Engraver
    After
    William Faithorne (1620 - 1691, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 370mm
    width (print): 265mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Ray, turned to the right [as viewed], with an academic gown and white collar. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed: ‘Joannes Rajus A.M
    Societatis Regiae Socius
    W. Hibbart Bathon Sculp, 1760’

    Engraving from MS/648/3, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.

    John Ray (1627-1705), English naturalist and theologian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667.
    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.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Charles Turnor (1768 - 1853) , Collector
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