View from Arundel House
Date
1792
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
John Thane, Publisher
After
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677, Bohemian) , Draughtsman
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view, showing London and the River Thames from the top of Arundel House. Three men in 17th century dress appear looking at the prospect, which includes old London Bridge, and old St. Paul’s Cathedral. With decorative borders.
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.192-193 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text describes the outbreak of the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the Royal Society enforced move from Gresham College to Arundel House. The work is the title page to the print series Views of Arundel House… (London, 1792).
Inscribed above: ‘VIEWS OF ARUNDEL HOUSE in the STRAND MDCXLVI &c.’ Inscribed below: ‘View of London from the top of Arundel House. LONDON. Published by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market 1792.’
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) Czech-born etcher, entered into the service of Thomas Howard 14th Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) and produced views of his London home.
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.192-193 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text describes the outbreak of the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the Royal Society enforced move from Gresham College to Arundel House. The work is the title page to the print series Views of Arundel House… (London, 1792).
Inscribed above: ‘VIEWS OF ARUNDEL HOUSE in the STRAND MDCXLVI &c.’ Inscribed below: ‘View of London from the top of Arundel House. LONDON. Published by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market 1792.’
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) Czech-born etcher, entered into the service of Thomas Howard 14th Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) and produced views of his London home.
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
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