Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11368

    Portrait of Edmund Waller

    Date
    1824
    Sitter
    Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687, British) , Poet
    Creator
    William Bromley (1769 - 1842, British) , Engraver
    After
    George Clint (1770 - 1854, British) , Portraitist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 291mm
    width (print): 219mm
    height (paper support): 296mm
    width (paper support): 230mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Edmund Waller, turned slightly to the right as viewed and looking straight at viewer. He wears ruff with pleated coat. Oval in rectangle frame.

    Inscribed ‘Drawn by G. Clint A.R.A. Engraved by W. Bromley A.R.A. EDMUND WALLER. From a Picture by Jansen in the collection of the Reverend Edward Waller. London, Jan.1.1824 Published by W Walker. 5 Grays Inn Square’ and pencilled ‘1663’.

    Edmund Waller was an original Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1663.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.87
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