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
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.
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.
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