Portrait of Francis Aston
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                                c.1838
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Francis Aston (1644 - 1715, British) , Natural philosopher
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                George Perfect Harding (1780 - 1853, British) , Artist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Friedrich Kerseboom (1632 - 1693, German) , Artist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 310mm
width (print): 220mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 220mm
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                                Head and shoulders portrait of Francis Aston, turned to the left [as viewed], looking directly out at the camera, with red robe, white necktie and curled wig. From a portrait in the collection of the Royal Society. 
Painting 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.
Francis Aston (1644-1715), British natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Painting 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.
Francis Aston (1644-1715), British natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
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                                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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