Portrait of Abraham Sharp
Date
1744
Sitter
Abraham Sharp (1653 - 1742, British) , Mathematician
Creator
George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
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Dimensions
height (print): 265mm
width (print): 215mm
width (print): 215mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Abraham Sharp, turned slightly to the left [as viewed]. With hair long, a military style jacket and white necktie in an oval frame inscribed: ‘ABRAHAMUS SHARP MATHEMATICUS INSIGNIS OBIT XV KAL. AVG. A. DOM. MDCCXLII AETAT. XCI’. Below, an armillary sphere, a compass, a geometric figure on paper and the Sharp coat of arms.
Inscribed below: ‘G. Vertue Sculp. 1744’
Engraving from MS/648/4, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Abraham Sharp (b.1653 - d. 1742), British mathematician and scientific instrument maker, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘G. Vertue Sculp. 1744’
Engraving from MS/648/4, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Abraham Sharp (b.1653 - d. 1742), British mathematician and scientific instrument maker, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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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