Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19573

    Portrait of Thomas Sydenham

    Date
    1746
    Sitter
    Thomas Sydenham (1619 - 1689, British)
    Creator
    Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780, Dutch) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 460mm
    width (print): 330mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Sydenham, turned to the left [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With a satin shawl and a white, laced necktie. In a carved oval frame, on a pedestal with an urn, books, manuscripts and Aesculapius' stick below.

    Inscribed below: Sydenham J. Houbraken 1746 61’

    Engraving from MS/648/6 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.

    Thomas Sydenham (c.1624-1689), British physician, 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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