Half length, seated in a chair, wearing clerics robes. In a particularly fine contemporary carved giltwood frame, bearing maker's label. "WYATT, High Street, Oxford."
The man on the left is tall with white hair surrounding a large bald patch (Liddell); the man on the right is much smaller, he has grey hair and wears a black hat.
Scott is portrayed in caricature, facing left; he wears black academic dress and collar; he is swinging a whip in his right hand at a spinning top on the left; on the right is a mortar board; the background shows Little Dean's Yard facing East, with the archway up School.
Digitally generated image of Robert Hooke. This was the winning entry of the 'Portraying Robert Hooke' competition run by the Library of the Royal Society in 2003 to mark the tercentenary of Robert Hooke's death. The prize was donated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. One of an edition of six.