Portrait of Leonhard Euler
Date
1736
Sitter
Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) , Mathematician
Creator
Johann Stenglin (1710 - 1766, German-Russian) , Engraver
After
Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718 - 1781, Swiss) , Artist
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height (print): 195mm
width (print): 136mm
width (print): 136mm
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Description
Seated portrait of Leonhard Euler, looking left of the viewer, with an open book on the table in front of him. From a portrait by Jakob Emanuel Handmann.
Inscribed: ‘LEONHARDUS EULER
Natus Basileae. 1707
Handmann Pinx.t Berlin 1736 I Stenglin Sculp.t 1768’
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.
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1747.
Inscribed: ‘LEONHARDUS EULER
Natus Basileae. 1707
Handmann Pinx.t Berlin 1736 I Stenglin Sculp.t 1768’
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.
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1747.
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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