Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) mb-artistname M & N Hanhart at a Wardmote Inquest

at a Wardmote Inquest

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Showing the staircase

'Westminster Races

The Adoration of the Magi

Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) mb-artistname M & N Hanhart at a Wardmote InquestEdmond Halley as an old man, wearing a loose black robe over a lighter coat. Beneath that, a white shirt with a fine squared collar at the neck. He wears a shoulder length wig. Behind him, in a curtained recess, are two bound books on a shelf. Inscribed 'Engraved by W. T. Fry from an original Picture ascribed to Dahl in the possession of the Royal Society. HALLEY. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, GALSGOW EDINBURGH LONDON & NEW YORK'. Edmond Halley was elected a