Galileo, 1564-1642
- Title
- Galileo, 1564-1642
- Collection
- Caltech Photographs
- Series
- Photographs Related to History of Science Beyond Caltech
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Photo reproduction of Robert Hart’s stipple engraving published by Charles Knight of London in 1834, after a 1757 oil on canvas portrait done by Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) and presented to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1759; Ramsay inspired after Flemish portraitist Justus Sustermans’ (1597-1681) oil on canvas portrait of Galileo painted c. 1640, which hangs in the Pitti Gallery in Florence.