A black basalt relief bust, portrait medallion of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727).  He is shown three-quarter-face to right in integral laurel-wreath frame.  For this medallion of Newton, Wedgwood is known to have copied a portrait by David Le Marchand (1674-1726) which was carved in ivory.

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A black basalt relief bust, portrait medallion of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). He is shown three-quarter-face to right in integral laurel-wreath frame. For this medallion of Newton, Wedgwood is known to have copied a portrait by David Le Marchand (1674-1726) which was carved in ivory.

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