Manuscripts

Isaacus Newton Eq. Aura [mezzotint by John Simon after Thornhill]

Description

Description 37 x 27 cm. mounted on sheet 38 x 29 cm.

No number Notes Similar to copy at Linda Hall Library and Fitzwilliam Museum (http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/66/2/159). Depicts Newton with natural hair facing right, in a dressing gown. Imprint on copy is faded: "Thornhill Eq. pinx. I. Simon fec. Sold by I. Simon in New Street Covt. Garden."

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Date

approximately 1700 to 1725

Call number

mssBabsonArt

Provenance

On long term-loan from Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, November 2006.

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[Engraved portrait of Isaac Newton after Sir James Thornhill]

Manuscripts

Description Broken into 3 panels: image (26 x 21 cm.); caption (5 x 22 cm.); provenance inscription (11 x 18 cm) Babson no. BC / J13 Notes Mounted. Inscription reads: I believe this engraving to be rare -it was purchased by me at a village inn by the river side when on a boating excursion down the Cam around 1821. J. Hooper A.B." The printed caption, originally at head of engraving reads in part: "Done from an original p[aint]ing of Sir James Thornhill's in the custody of Rev. Dr. Bentley. Master of Trinity College."

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Martin Fokes Esq. F.R.S. [mezzotint by John Faber, Jr. after John Vanderbank]

Manuscripts

Imprint: Sold by I Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. Description 36 x 26 cm Notes "J. Vanderbank pinxt. 1736. I Faber fecit 1737" Depicts Martin Folkes (1690-1754), English antiquary with right hand resting on closed book, with bust of Newton over his left shoulder.

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Isaac Newton at the age of twelve [mezzotint]

Manuscripts

Imprint: New York Published by William Schaus … Oct. 6 1859 … Description image 36 x 31 cm., sheet 51 x 41 cm. Babson no. BC / [J]36 Notes "Painted by Frederick Newenham. London Published by Henry Graves & Comp. Oct. 6, 1859. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson."

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Isaacs Newton Equ. Anno Aetat 84 AC 1726 [engraving]

Manuscripts

Imprint: J. Cooper excubet, [1726]. Description 35 x 26 cm matted to 50 x 39 cm. Babson no. BC / [J]34] Notes After original by J. Vanderbank. "J Vanderbank pinx. 1725. J. Faber fecit 1726; J. Cooper execubut"

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Sir Isaac Newton [engraving after original] in the possession of John Conduit Esqr

Manuscripts

Description image 37 x 23 cm, sheet 40 x 27, mount 48 x 34 cm Babson no. BC / J32 Notes Dated 1744 in pencil on bottom. Mat shows some signs of water damage.

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Sir Isaac Newton from the original picture by Vanderbank in the possession of the Royal Society. [engraving]

Manuscripts

Imprint: London, Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall East. Description image 13 x 11 cm.; sheet 26 x 18 cm. Babson no. BC/J6 Notes 2 copies. "Engraved by E. Scriven"; "Under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge"; copy 2 is cropped at bottom with loss of imprint.

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Isaacus Newton Eq. Aura [mezzotint by John Simon after Thornhill]

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