Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Plate II - NEWTON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Contents
- Plate I THE STATUE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL
- Plate II NEWTON
- Plate III FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY
- Plate IV FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY, British Museum
- Plate V BACON
- Plate VI JOHN RAY
- Plate VII JOHN RAY, British Museum
- Plate VIII BARROW
- Plate IX BARROW
- Plate X BENTLEY
- Plate XI BENTLEY
- Plate XII PLASTER CAST OF THE BUST OF BENTLEY, Lambeth Palace
- Plate XIII LORD TREVOR
- Plate XIV LORD WHITWORTH
- Plate XV SIR EDWARD COKE
- Plate XVI SIR ROBERT COTTON
- Plate XVII TERRACOTTA MODEL FOR THE BUST OF COTTON AT TRINITY, British Museum
- Plate XVIII MONUMENT OF DANIEL LOCK, F.R.S., IN THE ANTECHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XIX MONUMENT OF FRANCIS HOOPER, S.T.P., BY ROUBILIAC'S PUPIL, NICHOLAS READ, IN THE ANTE-CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE
- Plate XX THE DEATH-MASK OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- NOTE ON PLATE XVIII
Summary
Inscription: Ex dono Danielis Lock hujus Collegii A.M. 1751.
Signature: l. f. roubiliacsculpit. 1751.
This very powerful bust, the earliest probably of Lock's benefactions, is virtually a marble transcript of Thornhill's portrait of Newton in the Master's Lodge. Whether it actually preceded the two other portraits of the same year is uncertain, but it is here placed at the head of the busts for comparison with the statue of Newton. Admirable as it is, the classical drapery, a legacy from Roubiliac's earlier Newton type, makes us rejoice that in the greater work the sculptor did himself justice by representing Newton in Academic dress; but to appreciate Roubiliac's classical draperies we have only to turn to the marble copy of the bust by E. H. Baily, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery, when the incredible inferiority in the handling and modelling of the marble and the representation of texture will be fully apparent. The later sculptor, for some reason best known to himself, has omitted the inner drapery; the action is a curious commentary on the fidelity with which Roubiliac himself, in the non-classical portraits, reproduced the contemporary costumes of the portraits which formed his authorities for the busts. There is a very fine cast of the Newton, possibly from the lost terracotta, in the Library at Wilton.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge , pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1924