Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19574

    Portrait of John Bird

    Date
    c.1770s
    Sitter
    John Bird (1709 - 1776, British) , Instrument maker
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    C. Lewis, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 179mm
    width (print): 118mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of John Bird, looking directly out at the viewer, one hand tucked into his waistcoat, one hand resting on a table, below which is a working diagram of a mural quadrant and a beam compass.

    Inscribed below: ‘John Bird’

    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.

    John Bird (1709-1776), British astronomer and mathematical instrument maker, 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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