Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19542

    Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

    Date
    c.1731
    Sitter
    Creator
    John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Joseph Highmore (1692 - 1780, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 113mm
    width (print): 73mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of Caroline of Ansbach, turn slightly to the left [as viewed] wearing state dress, embellished with pearls and jewels. One hand rests on a nearby table, on which a crown lies on a velvet cushion. From a painting by Joseph Highmore.

    Inscribed below: ‘I Highmore Pinx. I Faber. Fecit.
    Serenisima Carolina D. G. Mag. Brit. Fran. Et Hib. REGINA
    Sold by I. Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane’

    Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.

    Caroline of Ansbach, Queen Consort of George II (1683-1737) 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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