Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) mb-artistname M & N Hanhart 'Westminster Races

'Westminster Races

and set a new nap on it Shakespeare'

at a Wardmote Inquest

The Adoration of the Magi

Found in the collection of the Kunsthalle

Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) mb-artistname M & N Hanhart 'Westminster RacesEdmond 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