Portrait of Charles Hutton
Date
1805
Sitter
Charles Hutton (1737 - 1823, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Charles Knight (1743, British) , Engraver
After
Mary Byrne (1776 - 1845, British) , Miniaturist
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Hutton, body angled to the right as viewed, head turned to look directly at the viewer. Wearing a dark coat and cravat, with a curtain behind.
Frontispiece illustration [plate not numbered], The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805).
Inscribed below, ‘CHARLES HUTTON, L.LD. F.R.S.S. of London & Edinburgh, and of the Philosophical Societies of Haarlem & America., and Professor of Mathematics, in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Mary Bryne pinx. C.Knight sculp.’.
Charles Hutton (1737-1823), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774. He served as the Society’s Foreign Secretary, 1779-1784.
Frontispiece illustration [plate not numbered], The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805).
Inscribed below, ‘CHARLES HUTTON, L.LD. F.R.S.S. of London & Edinburgh, and of the Philosophical Societies of Haarlem & America., and Professor of Mathematics, in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Mary Bryne pinx. C.Knight sculp.’.
Charles Hutton (1737-1823), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774. He served as the Society’s Foreign Secretary, 1779-1784.
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