Portrait of Colin Maclaurin
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Colin MacLaurin (1698 - 1746, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Thomas Trotter (1750 - 1803, British) , Engraver
After
James Ferguson (1710 - 1776, Scottish) , Artist
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height (print): 205mm
width (print): 140mm
width (print): 140mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Colin Maclaurin, turned to the left [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With curled wig, dark jacket and white necktie. From a portrait by James Ferguson.
Inscribed below: ‘Trotter sc
COLIN MACLURIN, MATH. PROF. EDIN.
From an Original Painting in the collection of the Early of Buchan.
London: Published 1 Jan. 1798 by Robert Wilkinson No 58. Cornhill.’
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.
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1719.
Inscribed below: ‘Trotter sc
COLIN MACLURIN, MATH. PROF. EDIN.
From an Original Painting in the collection of the Early of Buchan.
London: Published 1 Jan. 1798 by Robert Wilkinson No 58. Cornhill.’
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.
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1719.
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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