Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19576

    Portrait of Evangelista Torricelli

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Evangelista Torricelli (1608 - 1647, Italian) , Physicist
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    Lorenzo Lippi (1606 - 1665, Italian) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 280mm
    width (print): 205mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Evangelista Torricelli, turned to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With hair natural and a moustache, a white necktie and furred robe. From a portrait by Lorenzo Lippi.

    Inscribed below: ‘Tomba dis. ed inc.
    TORRICELLI’

    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.

    Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), Italian physicist and mathematician, 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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