Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19525

    Portrait of Michael Newton

    Date
    1774
    Sitter
    Michael Newton (1690 - 1743, British) , Landowner
    Creator
    William Humphrey (1745 - 1810, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 180mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Michael Newton, looking left of the viewer [as viewed], with a curled wig, white necktie, sash and blazer with his Knight Grand Cross Star of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

    Inscribed below: ‘Humphrey Fec.t
    Sr: Mich:L Newton,
    Published May 26 1774 by W Humphrey’

    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.

    Sir Michael Newton (c.1695-1743), British landowner and politician, 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.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Charles Turnor (1768 - 1853) , Collector
    Associated place
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