Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19545

    Portrait of Nicholas Saunderson

    Date
    mid 18th century
    Sitter
    Nicholas Saunderson (1682 - 1739, British) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739, British) , Artist
    Object type
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    Description
    Half-length portrait of Nicholas Saunderson, turned to the right [as viewed], holding armillary sphere. With long, curled wig, dark robe and white necktie. From a portrait by John Vanderbank.

    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.

    Nicholas Saunderson (1683 – 1739), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
    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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