Edmundus Halleius
date: label: date made
content: 1722
notes: label: Description
content: This mezzotint was issued in 1722, a year after Edmond Halley (1656-1742) was named Astronomer Royal. The signatures at bottom read “T. Murray pinx. 1712” and “John Faber Fecit 1722” and “Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.” The text identifies Halley as “Astronomus Regius et Geometriæ Professor Savilianus.”
label: Description
content: This half-length portrait print is based on a full-length oil portrait done in 1712 by Thomas Murray, a painter from Scotland who enjoyed prominence and prosperity in England. Murray depicted Halley as the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford, wearing a long wig, clerical bands (a symbol of ecclesiastical or academic profession) around his neck, and a fur vest. The mezzotint was done by John Faber Jr., an artist from The Hague who spent his working life in London. It was sold by John Bowles, a printmaker and dealer in London.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. W. Hughes, “The Portraits of Edmond Halley,” <i>Vistas in Astronomy</i> 27 (1984): 55-62.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329182
label: catalog number
content: 329182
label: accession number
content: 280072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 8 in; 35.56 cm x 20.32 cm