Newton

Located in the square in front of the New British Library, London (the UK).

Bronze.

Eduardo Paolozzi completed his sculptural Isaac Newton for installation in front of the new British Library. The sculptor borrowed the scientist’s figure from the colour lithography of Symbolist artist William Blake, in which Newton is depicted with a measuring device in his hand. Paolozzi depicted the body of the model in the same pose as that of Blake, but in a manner peculiar to himself. The sculptor gave it mechanical features, as if great inventor Newton was half a robot. The artist created another such sculpture, only of a much smaller size, for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and the original work (model made of bronze) is in the permanent exhibition of the Tate Gallery.