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Image number: RS.10603
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Portrait of Charles Richard Weld
Date
1860s
Sitter
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
Creator
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813 - 1901, British) , Photographer
Object type
Library reference
R67588
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 99mm
height (mount): 268mm
width (mount): 242mm
width (print): 99mm
height (mount): 268mm
width (mount): 242mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Richard Weld, oval, facing to the right as viewed and printed with a facsimile signature.
Inscribed below: ‘Photographed from Life by Mayall, Regent Street.’
Frontispiece to the posthumously published Notes on Burgundy by Charles Richard Weld, edited by his widow (London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1869).
Charles Richard Weld was Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society 1843-1861. A friend (and brother-in-law) of Alfred Tennyson, Weld produced travel writing and was a publishing partner of Lovell Reeve. His best-known work is the two-volume A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents (London, 1848).
Inscribed below: ‘Photographed from Life by Mayall, Regent Street.’
Frontispiece to the posthumously published Notes on Burgundy by Charles Richard Weld, edited by his widow (London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1869).
Charles Richard Weld was Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society 1843-1861. A friend (and brother-in-law) of Alfred Tennyson, Weld produced travel writing and was a publishing partner of Lovell Reeve. His best-known work is the two-volume A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents (London, 1848).
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