Sr. Isaac Newton [graphic]

Description

Title: Sr. Isaac Newton [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sir Isaac Newton
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1738 and 1742]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: John and Paul Knapton
Abstract: "Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, wearing long wig; in an architectural oval on a pedestal with allegorical scene in a roundel; below scientific instruments and a scroll."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,8.223.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"In the possession of John Conduit Esqr."--Below image.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 714 (leaf numbered '167' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.8 x 23.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English