Sir Isaac Newton. Mezzotint after Sir J. Thornhill, 1710.

  • Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734.
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Sir Isaac Newton. Mezzotint after Sir J. Thornhill, 1710. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Newton, half length to left, pointing with his left index finger to left. On the right, drapery

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1 print : mezzotint ; image 31.7 x 25.3 cm

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Any lettering cropped from lower margin of impression catalogued

References note

Not found in: J. Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits (but in reverse to Chaloner Smith, vol. 3, London 1883, p. 1105, Simon no. 110)
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2140.20
M. Keynes, The iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2005, no. XLV-1, p. 57

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Wellcome Collection 7394i

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