Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) mb-artistname Janet Archer Queen Mary II's funeral

Queen Mary II's funeral

Beer Street celebrates the virtues of the mildly intoxicating traditional national drink

claiming it was left from the previous Liberal administration

with recently arrived guests outside

View showing figures around a fountain and seated in a bower

Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) mb-artistname Janet Archer Queen Mary II's funeralFull length seated portrait of Fontenelle dressed in loose robes and turban holding a quill pen in his right hand, the left arm leaning against a table upon which stands a globe and inkwells. Inscribed: 'Guilleinot del. Chollet sc.' Inscribed in pencil lower left '1732 Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle 1657 to 1757'. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1732. Original: engraving. ca. 1830s