Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Davidson & in Thesauro Veneto seruata'

& in Thesauro Veneto seruata' (an ingenious artificial seven-headed hydra

22nd November 1986

7 Amen Corner

'To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe act) the distillers

Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Davidson & in Thesauro Veneto seruata'Head and shoulders painting of Newton, from a sculpture at the Royal Society. Inscribed in ink 'ISAACUS NEWTON. EQUES AURATUS. Anno Aetatis suae 79. Regae Societas PRAESES Anno Domni. 1721.' Newton's coat of arms, bearing crossed bones, appears at the centre of this inscription. Signed lower left 'G. P. Harding'. Inscribed lower right in pencil: 'facsimile copy of le Marchand's original in R. S. collection.' Isaac Newton was elected a Fellow of the