Portrait of Johannes Hevelius
Date
1839
Sitter
Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687, German/Polish) , Astronomer
Creator
William Delamotte (1775 - 1863, British) , Printmaker
After
Andreas Stech (1635 - 1697, Polish) , Painter
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Dimensions
height (print): 190 mm
width (print): 295mm
width (print): 295mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Johannes Hevelius, with hair long and an embroidered necktie. From a portrait by Andreas Stech in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Inscribed below: ‘Hevelius. From a Portrait in the Bodlean Library. Oxford.
W. A. Delamotte Delin. Oxford 1839’
Drawing 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.
Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) Polish astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
Inscribed below: ‘Hevelius. From a Portrait in the Bodlean Library. Oxford.
W. A. Delamotte Delin. Oxford 1839’
Drawing 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.
Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) Polish astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
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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