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
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Dimensions
height (print): 310mm
width (print): 196mm
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.
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.
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