Portrait of Edmond Halley
Date
c.1720s
Sitter
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
Creator
After
Thomas Murray (1663 - 1735, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 267mm
width (print): 148mm
width (print): 148mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Edmond Halley, turned slightly to the left [as viewed] looking directly out at the viewer. With gown over coat and white necktie, in an oval frame. From a portrait by Thomas Murray in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Inscribed below: ‘Edm.d Halley A.P.R.
Printed for John Bowles at the […]’
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.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Inscribed below: ‘Edm.d Halley A.P.R.
Printed for John Bowles at the […]’
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.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
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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