Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9380
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Ancient lyre and tortoise
Date
1701
Creator
Thomas Molyneux (1661 - 1733, Irish) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (painting): 300mm
width (painting): 192mm
width (painting): 192mm
Subject
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Description
Study of an ancient lyre, after a drawing in the treatise on harmonics by Marinus Mersennus, with a view of a tortoise or turtle from which the artist believed the lyres were made.
Figures 1-2 from a plate for the paper “A letter...containing some thoughts concerning the Ancient Greek and Roman Lyre...” by Thomas Molyneux, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.23 (1702-1703) pp.1267-1278.
Figures 1-2 from a plate for the paper “A letter...containing some thoughts concerning the Ancient Greek and Roman Lyre...” by Thomas Molyneux, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.23 (1702-1703) pp.1267-1278.
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