Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19520

    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
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 190 mm
    width (print): 295mm
    Subject
    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.
    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
    Associated place
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          > Poland
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