Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19546

    Portrait of William Cheselden

    Date
    1804
    Sitter
    William Cheselden (1688 - 1752, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    William Ridley (1764 - 1838, British) , Engraver
    James Asperne (1757 - 1820, British) , Publisher
    After
    Jonathan Richardson (1667 - 1745, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 350mm
    width (print): 190mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders reaction of William Cheselden, turned to the right [as viewed], looking right of the viewer. With a turban, a dark coat and a white necktie. From a portrait in from St. Thomas’ Hopsital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.

    Inscribed above: ‘European Magazine’
    Inscribed below: ‘Painted by Richardson & Engraved by Riley
    William Cheselden Esq.r
    Published by J. Asperne at the Bible Crown & Constitution 32, Cornhill, 1 July 1804’

    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.

    William Cheselden (1688–1752), British surgeon and anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1711.
    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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