Portrait of George Vertue
Date
c.1740s
Sitter
George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 133mm
width (print): 83mm
width (print): 83mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of George Vertue, turned to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. He points to his own engraving of the ‘Chandos’ portrait of Shakespeare. From a self-portrait by Vertue.
Inscribed below: ‘Geo. Vertue.’
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.
George Vertue (1684-1756), English engraver and antiquary, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘Geo. Vertue.’
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.
George Vertue (1684-1756), English engraver and antiquary, 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.
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