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Title: Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1760
Description: Original mezzotint portrait of Newton published in 1760, done by James MacArdel (1729-1765), after an original portrait painted in 1726 by English painter Enoch Seeman (1694-1744).

Title: Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Reproduction of engraving done ca 1870 by Fr. L. Meyer, after the painting “Galileo in Prison” done in 1864 by Carlo Piloty (better known as Karl Theodor von Piloty, 1826-1886), showing Galileo imprisoned in solitary.

Title: Page/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Format: photograph: print
Description: Engraved three-quarter left profile of Franklin by R. Page after an original in the possession of General Washington. Published by J. Robins & Co., London, July 1, 1826.

Title: Buda / Citerioris Hvngaricae Capvt
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1618
Description: Copperplate print, hand-colored. Folio from a Latin edition of Braun and Hogenberg’s atlas, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of Cities of the World), published originally in Cologne between 1572 and 1618. This plate is found in the last volume, v. 6, published in 1618. Bird’s-eye view of the cities of Buda and Pest (now Budapest) with Danube between. View within large cartouche-like window on simulated wood ground. Two human figures in Turkish dress occupy foreground. Notable on the smaller figure is the insertion of feathers into the skin of the wearer. See explanatory legend in lower cartouche. Based on work of Flemish engraver Joris Hoefnagel [Georgius Houfnaglius]. The image is dated 1617. Verso has printed text, description of Buda, in Latin. Gift of Earnest C. Watson, 1952.

Title: Die Statt Leypzig
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1657
Description: Copperplate engraved print, hand colored. Folio from a Latin edition of Braun and Hogenberg’s atlas, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of Cities of the World), published originally in Cologne between 1572 and 1618. Bird’s-eye view of the city of Leipzig. Verso has printed text, description of Leipzig, in Latin. Pencil note in donor’s hand: “Jansson 1657. Coloring probably not contemporary.” Note indicates the plate is from Jan Jansson’s reissue of the atlas in Amsterdam in 1657. Gift of Earnest C. Watson, 1952.

Title: Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1814
Description: Small portrait of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, done by English/American engraver John Sartain (1808-1897), after original portrait done by painter Ferdinand Theodor Hildebrandt (1804-1874). Autograph note in French, signed by Humboldt, 20 Nov 1814, addressee unknown, but recommending the bearer, an “American” mineralogist/geologist, M. de Palacios [?].

Title: Lee DuBridge portrait by Don Bachardy
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1964
Description: Pencil and ink wash portrait of Lee A. DuBridge, President of Caltech, by renowned contemporary portraitist Don Bachardy (1934-). Bachardy was born in Los Angeles and studied art at the Chouinard Art Institute.

Title: Wilson/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Format: photograph: print
Description: Three-quarter left profile of Franklin wearing a coat with covered buttons; a mole on Franklin’s left cheek strongly indicated. Reproduction of a 1761 mezzotint by James McCardell (1728-1965) after a 1759 oil painting done by Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788).

Title: Duplessis-Valade/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Format: photograph: print
Description: Large portrait of Franklin, in three-quarter right profile, dressed in a coat with fur collar. Photograph of a ca. 1785 oil painting, probably by French portrait painter Jean Valade (1709-1787) [and originally owned by Thomas Jefferson], after a 1778 painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1751-1831). Photographed in Berlin.

Title: Portrait of Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827)
Format: photograph: negative
Description: Engraved portrait of Pierre Simon Laplace, done by Tony Goutiere (1808-1890), after original done by French painter Jean-Claude Naigeon (1753-1832), as drawn by Mlle. Houssaye. The French mathematician and astronomer gave us the Laplacian differential operator in applied mathematics. Paris editor, Gauthier-Villars.

Title: Nini-Walpole/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Format: print: engraving
Description: Right profile of Franklin with short hair, wearing a fur hat. From a 1777 medallion by Jean Baptiste Nini, after a Thomas Walpole (1755-1840), in the possession of Dr. Lettsom. Engraved by Heath.

Title: Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure reproduction after an oil painting of the Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt, seated at a desk, with the plans of a rotative beam engine and a 1788 condenser with a wooden frame draped across the desk. The oil painting was done in 1792 by Swedish painter Carl Fredrik von Breda (1759-1818) when the artist visited Watt in Birmingham. The original is on display in Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.

Title: Portrait of Brook Taylor (1685-1731)
Format: photograph: negative
Description: Engraved portrait of the English mathematician “Brook Taylor, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714,” noted for his contribution to the development of calculus. Done by renowned mezzotint engraver Richard Earlom (1743-1822), “From an Original Picture in the Possession of Lady Young,” after an unknown artist .