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 XIV - LORD WHITWORTH
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: c. whitworth baro de galway. Dono Dedit. Ri: Whitworth Nepos.
Signature: l. f. roubiliacSculpit 1757.
This bust, with its fine scheme of drapery, its alert and high-bred face, and its fine soft hair, is one of the most attractive of the series. Lord Whitworth, our ambassador to St. Petersburg, was a man of great distinction, and the nephew who erected the bust–a posthumous one, as Whitworth died in 1725–must have felt that a worthy subject was worthily commemorated.
Lord Whitworth's Account of Russia as it was in 1710 was printed at Strawberry Hill, and is much sought after by collectors; it did not appear, however, until a year after the bust was in place, so that this portrait owed nothing to the influential name of Horace Walpole. It is profoundly to be regretted that Dr Maty, who purchased the other Trinity models for the British Museum, did not buy that of this bust, which was also for sale, and which, in consequence of his failure to do so, has most probably perished.
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- Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge , pp. 29 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1924