Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19537

    Portrait of Edmond Halley

    Date
    c.1720s
    Sitter
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Creator
    George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
    After
    Richard Phillips (1681 - 1741, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 310mm
    width (print): 196mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Edmond Halley, turned to the left [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With a curled wig, a loose dark gown and a white necktie. In an oval frame, mounted on a plinth. From a portrait at the National Portrait Gallery.

    Inscribed below: ‘R. Philips pinxit G Vertue Sculp.
    Edmundus Halleius R.S.S.
    Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus’

    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.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Charles Turnor (1768 - 1853) , Collector
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