Portrait of Michael Newton
Date
1774
Sitter
Michael Newton (1690 - 1743, British) , Landowner
Creator
William Humphrey (1745 - 1810, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 128mm
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.
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.
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