Portraits of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mb-code 1194191 31st December 1962

31st December 1962

The boat from Boulogne brings French citizens escaping from the troubles of France

Thomas Carlyle

The City of London

'The Bench'

Portraits of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mb-code 1194191 31st December 1962Portraits of successive Presidents of the Royal Society, approximately circular, constructed from a single spiralling line leading from one portrait to the other. Names of each subject appears within and to the left of each image: 'Sr. ISAAC. NEWTON Sr. HANS. SLOANE' With decorative flourishes, inscribed above: 'Ecce Gloriae Mathematicarum & Physicarum' and below 'Jacob Smith del: et Sculpsit 1733'. Original: engraving. 1733