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 XVI - SIR ROBERT COTTON
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: rob. cottonBaronettus. Posuit Eliab Harvey. 1757.
Signature: l. f. roubiliac 1757.
This noble bust of the founder of the Cottonian Library and so, ultimately, of the British Museum, disputes with the Coke the honour of being the finest of the older worthies commemorated by Roubiliac. The soft fine hair, the delicate plaited double ruff, the doublet enriched by the cloak and so infinitely more decorative than the Bacon in a doublet and scarf, the spirited pose, are all equally admirable. “Every button,” as Cunningham said of the Vauxhall Handel of 1738, “seems to have sat for its likeness,” and if this applies to many of the series, it is most appropriately quoted where there are, as here, no fewer than eleven buttons for the saying to apply to. There is a poor engraving of the bust in the Cambridge Portfolio by way of illustration to the interesting paper on Coke already noticed, but the only reference to it in the text is a statement that it stands opposite that of Coke.
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- Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge , pp. 33 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1924