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Sir Isaac Newton
20 of 46 portraits of Sir Isaac Newton
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Sir Isaac Newton
by George Vertue, after John Vanderbank
engraving, published 1726 (1725)
8 7/8 in. x 6 3/8 in. (227 mm x 163 mm) plate size; 9 1/4 in. x 6 5/8 in. (234 mm x 169 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D19088
Sitterback to top
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Mathematical scientist. Sitter associated with 46 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- John Vanderbank (1694-1739), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 99 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- George Vertue (1683-1756), Engraver and antiquary. Artist or producer associated with 865 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
Events of 1726back to top
Current affairs
Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to sixteen rabbits in Godalming Surrey and becomes the subject of considerable controversy, involving the King's own physician Nathaniel St Andre. The story is later revealed to be a hoax.The Craftsman, a polemical political periodical, is launched by opposition leaders Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.
Art and science
St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London is completed to the design of the architect James Gibbs.Jonathan Swift publishes his bitterly satirical Gulliver's Travels.
Poet Alexander Pope produces an English language translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Poet Allan Ramsay opens the first circulating library in Edinburgh.
International
French writer Voltaire begins an exile in England which lasts three years.City of Montevideo is founded by the Spanish in Uruguay.
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