Description | Goup portrait includes Isaac Barrow, Robert Boyle, Kenelm Digby, Edmund Halley, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton. Engraved by Thomas Milton (ca 1743-1827), from the design done by Robert Smirke (1752-1845), an English painter and renowned book illustrator [note: not to be confused with his son Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867), who is best known for his work on London's British Museum]. Published by Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Historic Gallery, December 1, 1804. |
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