File:Edmund Halley.gif

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Thomas Murrey; Thomas Nurrey; Thomas (1663) Murray; Mr. Murrey; Murray; Mr. Murray
Description	British painter
Date of birth/death	1663	June 1734 / 1 June 1735 / 1734
Location of birth/death	Scotland	London
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q7792630 VIAF: 95883212 ISNI: 0000000116905339 ULAN: 500032750 Oxford Dict.: 19650 GND: 1025207092

Object type

painting

Description

Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742)

Date

circa 1690

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 76.5 cm (30.1 in); width: 63.9 cm (25.1 in)

Collection

Royal Society

	Native name	The President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
	Location	London, United Kingdom
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 22″ N, 0° 07′ 56″ W
	Established	28 November 1660
	Website	royalsociety.org
	Authority file	: Q123885 VIAF: 157503209 ISNI: 000000012248733X ULAN: 500301966 LCCN: n79127772 NLA: 36101708 WorldCat

Accession number

RS.9284

Object history

Acquisition method: acquired, before 1768

References

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edmond-halley-16561742-216289

Source/Photographer

uploaded from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrology/newton.htm

originally uploaded on en.wikipedia by Lumos3 (talk · contribs) at 19 December 2005, 13:46. Filename was Edmund Halley.gif.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:43, 10 August 2021	3,059 × 3,724 (2.61 MB)	Serpree	Higher resolution
	11:35, 12 July 2021	1,000 × 1,320 (1.03 MB)	UpdateNerd	visually matched color closer to print appearance in Sagan & Druyan's Comet (1997)
	21:21, 16 March 2012	1,000 × 1,320 (1.04 MB)	Hohum	Reworked from best version. Further colour correction makes it worse.
	17:51, 2 January 2012	1,000 × 1,294 (567 KB)	Soerfm	Color, brightness
	20:56, 25 February 2010	1,000 × 1,320 (319 KB)	Bencherlite	Better version from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrology/images/edmond_halley_1687.jpg
	10:38, 5 February 2008	316 × 394 (57 KB)	File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)	{{BotMoveToCommons\|en.wikipedia}} {{Information \|Description={{en\|Portrait of Edmond Halley painted around 1687 by Thomas Murray (Royal Society, London) uploaded from http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrology/newton.htm}} \|Source=Transferred from [http://en