Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Product:Greetings card Stoke Newington and Clapton

Stoke Newington and Clapton

Broad Sanctuary

Mick Buckley

by the beginning of April 1866

Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Product:Greetings card Stoke Newington and ClaptonHead and shoulder portrait of Newton wearing a dark coat and waistcoat, with a white neck cloth. Inscribed below the image 'SIR ISAAC NEWTON DRAWN AND SCRAPED MDCCLX BY JAMES MACARDEL FROM AN ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PAINTED BY ENOCH SEEMAN NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THOMAS HOLLIS F. R. AND A. S. S.' There follows an extended quotation from Voltaire commencing: 'LES ITALIENS CES PEUPLES' Isaac Newton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, he served