Portrait of Robert Boyle
Date
mid 18th century
Sitter
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Creator
Hubert Francois Gravelot (1699 - 1773, French) , Engraver
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height (print): 170mm
width (print): 365mm
width (print): 365mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Boyle in a medallion, below a sculpture, and surrounded by apparatus, including: his air pump, a thermometer and hygrometer [right as viewed].
Inscribed below: ‘Ex rerum Causis Supremam noscere Causam
H Gravelot inv. et delin’
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.
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), Irish natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Inscribed below: ‘Ex rerum Causis Supremam noscere Causam
H Gravelot inv. et delin’
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.
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), Irish natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
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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