Portrait of Martin Folkes
Date
1742
Sitter
Martin Folkes (1690 - 1754, British) , Antiquary
Creator
John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
After
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 130mm
width (print): 75mm
width (print): 75mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Martin Folkes, looking and pointing to the left of the viewer, with curled wig, dark jacket and white necktie, against clouds and woodland. From a portrait in the collection of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘W., Hogarth pinx. 1741 J. Faber fecit 1742
Martin Folkes Esq.r
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square’
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.
Martin Folkes (1690-1754), British antiquary and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714.
Inscribed below: ‘W., Hogarth pinx. 1741 J. Faber fecit 1742
Martin Folkes Esq.r
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square’
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.
Martin Folkes (1690-1754), British antiquary and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714.
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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