Portrait of Joseph Moxon
Date
1692
Sitter
Joseph Moxon (1627 - 1691, British) , Instrument maker
Creator
Frederick-Hendrik van den Hove (1618 - 1698, Dutch) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 137mm
width (print): 78mm
height (paper support): 260mm
width (paper support): 198mm
width (print): 78mm
height (paper support): 260mm
width (paper support): 198mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Moxon, turned to the right and looking straight to viewer. In an oval frame on pedestal with book spines above.
Inscribed ‘Mathema Dictionary. Machanick Exercises. Use of the Globe. Practi Perspective. Copernica Spheres. W. Cor. of Errors. The English Globe. Water Works. Tutor of Astrology. Christologia. Vignola. Euclidi Curiost. Anatomy. Mechan by alting. Mathema Jewel. 3 Or of P Letters. Sa Geogrphy. U of the Quadrant. U of the Astro Cards. U of Ne Bones’ on book spines above portrait. ‘F. H. van Hove, sculp. Joseph Moxon. Born at Wakefeild August the 8th Anno 1627’ on the pedestal beneath and pencilled ‘1/6’ and ‘1678’.
Joseph Moxon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 1678.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.49
Inscribed ‘Mathema Dictionary. Machanick Exercises. Use of the Globe. Practi Perspective. Copernica Spheres. W. Cor. of Errors. The English Globe. Water Works. Tutor of Astrology. Christologia. Vignola. Euclidi Curiost. Anatomy. Mechan by alting. Mathema Jewel. 3 Or of P Letters. Sa Geogrphy. U of the Quadrant. U of the Astro Cards. U of Ne Bones’ on book spines above portrait. ‘F. H. van Hove, sculp. Joseph Moxon. Born at Wakefeild August the 8th Anno 1627’ on the pedestal beneath and pencilled ‘1/6’ and ‘1678’.
Joseph Moxon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 1678.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.49
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