"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
Alternative Title:
Sir Isaac Newton
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., and 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.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, and Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Date of publication derived from printmaker's date of death., An illustration for the novel by William Harrison Ainsworth: Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life, 1844., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alchemist's Laboratory.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Elixir of life, Alchemy, Scientific equipment, Laboratories, Death, Skulls, Skeletons, and Furnaces
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Date of original painting: 1896., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
M. Barbot, Edit, Louis Durville, Succ, 60 Rue Madame and Imp. R. Engelmann, (Atelier Belfond), Paris
Subject (Name):
Chéron, Jules, 1839-1900,
Subject (Topic):
Injections, Neurasthenia, Sick persons, Physicians, Nurses, Experiments, Scientific equipment, Microscopes, Laboratories, Medical equipment & supplies, Hypodermic syringes, and Stoves
Title devised by curator., Possible artist's name in ink at lower right., Formerly catalogued as Hungarian., Date of production based style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title provided by curator., In pencil lower right margin: Ivo Saliger., Date of publication and alternate title from copy of print in the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2006677457., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Radiation therapy; Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
publisher unknown
Subject (Topic):
Radiotherapy, Breast, Cancer, Death (Personification)., Sick persons, Skeletons, Radiologists, and Scientific equipment
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
1751.
Call Number:
Print00688
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In lower margin center: According to Act of Parliament 1751., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In lower margin: Almeriae apud Ioannem van Beyeren, Bibliopolam., Possibly frontispiece from: Jan van Beyeren, Pharmacopoea almeriana galeno-chymicas, published Alkmaar, 1723., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior; Scientific apparatus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Almería (Spain).
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Scientific equipment, Mortars & pestles, and Drugstores
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by curator., Original work created: 1558., Place of production based on artist's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alchemist's Laboratory., and Notation (ink on vellum) on frame: Tr wi pl B.
