Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19512

    Portrait of Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke

    Date
    1762
    Sitter
    9th Earl of Pembroke Herbert (1693 - 1751, British) , Courtier
    Creator
    James Bretheron (1725 - 1806, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 290mm
    width (print): 182mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, turned slightly to the left [as viewed]. With a white wig, a white collar and dark jacket.

    Inscribed below: ‘J Bretheron .f.
    HENRY HERBERT EARL OF PEMBROKE’

    Etching 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.

    Henry Herbert 9th Earl of Pembroke and 6th Earl of Montgomery (1693 - 1750), English peer and courtier, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743.
    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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