Portrait of Humphrey Gilbert
Date
1779
Sitter
Humphrey Gilbert (1537 - 1583, British) , Explorer
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
John Hinton, Publisher
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 160mm
width (print): 96mm
width (print): 96mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Humphrey Gilbert, with short natural hair and a beard trimmed to a point. Wearing a buttoned tunic with a lace collar and cloak. Gilbert holds an armillary sphere in his right hand. Presented in an oval frame, on a pedestal.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The print appears at p.137 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘SR. HUMPHREY GILBERT. Printed for J. Hinton, at the King’s Arms, in Paternoster Row.’
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583) British explorer, soldier and colonialist in Ireland and North America.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The print appears at p.137 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘SR. HUMPHREY GILBERT. Printed for J. Hinton, at the King’s Arms, in Paternoster Row.’
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583) British explorer, soldier and colonialist in Ireland and North America.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's 2 volume A history of the Royal Society... (London, John W. Parker, 1848) grangerized by the writer and collector Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847–1916) into 8 volumes, adding illustrative material and manuscript items to Weld's text. The books were initially owned by Ludwig Mond FRS (1839–1909), and according to an inscription by his son Robert Ludwig Mond FRS (1867–1938) they were intended for presentation to the Society. This eventually happened in late 1959, the donor being the politician Harry Nathan (1889–1963), Lord Nathan of Churt.
Related fellows
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
Associated place