Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19559

    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
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 136mm
    Subject
    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.
    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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