Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) mb-artist Susie_Wright including man with horse transporting

including man with horse transporting barrel and three men in foriegn costume

had overspent on the 12 ships by some £235

was a geographer and geologist

the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeare's play

Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) mb-artist Susie_Wright including man with horse transportingLeibniz is shown at half length in a painted oval. He wears a dark shoulder length wig and is dressed in a white shirt, with gold and jewelled clasps at the throat and cuffs with a gold waistcoat. Over this, a red loose robe trimmed with blue collar and cuffs. In his left hand he holds a paper listing his achievements, commencing: 'Opus philosophicum. De Arte Combinatoria. Nova calculi differentialis '. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was elected a Fellow