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Three-quarter-length portrait of the 84-year-old Newton, wearing a wig and seated in a high-backed green chair with scrolled wooden arms. The sitter is looking away from a tan calf-bound book held upon his knee in a reading position. Newton is dressed in a loose olive-coloured robe, with white neckcloth and shirt cuffs. An ouroboros (a snake holding its own tail in its mouth) can be seen to the right of the picture.

The Royal Society

London

Title

Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

Date

1726

Medium

oil on paper

Measurements

H 127 x W 101.6 cm

Accession number

RS.9255

Acquisition method

presented by Martin Folkes

Work type

Painting

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