Portrait of John Bird
Date
c.1770s
Sitter
John Bird (1709 - 1776, British) , Instrument maker
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
C. Lewis, Artist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 179mm
width (print): 118mm
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.
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.
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