Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13400

    Portrait of Walter Chetwynd

    Date
    1820
    Sitter
    Walter Chetwynd (1633 - 1693, British English) , Historian
    Creator
    Henry Hoppner Meyer (1782 - 1847, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    John Bowyer Nichols, Publisher
    After
    Peter Lely (1618 - 1680, Dutch) , Portraitist
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 126mm
    height (paper support): 225mm
    width (paper support): 153mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Walter Chetwynd turned to the left and looking back to viewer. He wears long natural hair and is dressed in cape and falling collar.

    Inscribed ‘WALTER CHETWYND, ESQRE OF INGESTIRE. Engraved by Henry Meyer from a Picture by Sir Peter Lely in the possession of Earl Talbot. Published April 1820, by J. Nichols & Son’ and pencilled ‘1677’.

    Walter Chetwynd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.12.
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