Portrait of Brook Taylor
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Brook Taylor (1685 - 1731, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822, British) , Engraver
After
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 237mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Brook Taylor, looking right of the viewer, with curled wig, dark, button-up jacket and white necktie. In an oval frame. From a portrait in the collection of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘R. Earlom sculp.
BROOK TAYLOT, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714)
From an Original Picture in the Possession of Lady Young’
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.
Brook Taylor (1685-1731), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
Inscribed below: ‘R. Earlom sculp.
BROOK TAYLOT, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714)
From an Original Picture in the Possession of Lady Young’
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.
Brook Taylor (1685-1731), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
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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