Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19563

    Portrait of Jacobus Houbraken

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780, Dutch) , Engraver
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780, Dutch) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 405mm
    width (print): 290mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Jacobus Houbraken, looking left of the viewer, holding a copper plate in one hand, and a scraper in the other. Behind, a book case and a bust is visible. From a self-portrait by Houbraken.

    Inscribed below: ‘Jacobus Houbraken’

    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.

    Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780), Dutch engraver, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    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
    Associated place
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