Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) mb-artist Susie_Wright north west view with figures

north west view with figures in the foreground including a group of three men consulting a drawing of the church

was a geographer and geologist

the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeare's play

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Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) mb-artist Susie_Wright north west view with figuresLeibniz is shown at half length in a painted oval. He wears a dark shoulder length wig and is dressed in a white shirt, with gold and jewelled clasps at the throat and cuffs with a gold waistcoat. Over this, a red loose robe trimmed with blue collar and cuffs. In his left hand he holds a paper listing his achievements, commencing: 'Opus philosophicum. De Arte Combinatoria. Nova calculi differentialis '. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was elected a Fellow