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THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER. [KING, AUGUSTA ADA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE. 1815-1852.]
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THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER.
[KING, AUGUSTA ADA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE. 1815-1852.]
A ¾ length portrait, watercolor and ink on heavy paper, approx. 230 x 190 mm, signed lower right "Edward Tayler." In a gilt wood and velvet frame, with an arched gilt matte.
A lovely portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace when she was 23 years old by the renowned portrait and miniature painter Edward Tayler (1828-1906), after the celebrated painting by Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860). The original painting by Chalon is housed at the Science Museum in London. Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, Baroness Wentworth. She later married William King, the eighth Baron King, who was elevated to an earldom, making Ada the Countess of Lovelace. While she was the progeny of one of the most famous poets in history, it can be argued that her influence upon the world is far greater than her father's ever was. Having grown up without knowing her father, Ada's mother supplied her with a number of excellent tutors, including one in mathematics, which was highly unusual for a woman at the time. She proved to excel in this field, and continued studying mathematics through adulthood, receiving tutoring from the first professor of mathematics at the University of London, Augustus DeMorgan. Ada became friends with the famous Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who referred to her as the "Enchantress of Numbers," when she was just 18 years old and he was 42. Fascinated with his Difference Engine, the first mechanical computer, she became involved with his plan for the Anaytical Engine, offering him her services as a mathematician. At Babbage's suggestion, Ada executed a masterful translation of Luigi Menabrea's article on the Analytical Engine. She augmented the translation with notes that ended up being longer than Menabrea's paper, and which were later published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs under her initials "AAL." In these notes, she describes an algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine which is considered to be the first algorithm ever specifically intended to be used on a computer. It is thanks to this work that she is recognized as being the first ever computer programmer.
This portrait was exhibited in "Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement," Grolier Club, New York, 2013, catalog no. 111.
A ¾ length portrait, watercolor and ink on heavy paper, approx. 230 x 190 mm, signed lower right "Edward Tayler." In a gilt wood and velvet frame, with an arched gilt matte.
A lovely portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace when she was 23 years old by the renowned portrait and miniature painter Edward Tayler (1828-1906), after the celebrated painting by Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860). The original painting by Chalon is housed at the Science Museum in London. Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, Baroness Wentworth. She later married William King, the eighth Baron King, who was elevated to an earldom, making Ada the Countess of Lovelace. While she was the progeny of one of the most famous poets in history, it can be argued that her influence upon the world is far greater than her father's ever was. Having grown up without knowing her father, Ada's mother supplied her with a number of excellent tutors, including one in mathematics, which was highly unusual for a woman at the time. She proved to excel in this field, and continued studying mathematics through adulthood, receiving tutoring from the first professor of mathematics at the University of London, Augustus DeMorgan. Ada became friends with the famous Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who referred to her as the "Enchantress of Numbers," when she was just 18 years old and he was 42. Fascinated with his Difference Engine, the first mechanical computer, she became involved with his plan for the Anaytical Engine, offering him her services as a mathematician. At Babbage's suggestion, Ada executed a masterful translation of Luigi Menabrea's article on the Analytical Engine. She augmented the translation with notes that ended up being longer than Menabrea's paper, and which were later published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs under her initials "AAL." In these notes, she describes an algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine which is considered to be the first algorithm ever specifically intended to be used on a computer. It is thanks to this work that she is recognized as being the first ever computer programmer.
This portrait was exhibited in "Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement," Grolier Club, New York, 2013, catalog no. 111.