Portrait of Albert, Prince Consort
Date
ca.1840
Sitter
Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Albert (1819 - 1861, British)
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 108mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of a youthful Prince Albert, in uniform. Turned to the left as viewed. Circular, within a decorative frame incorporating floral wreaths and surmounted by a crown. Below, a coat of arms with the motto: ‘Treu und Fest’.
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.177 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes scientific and Royal signatories to the Charter Book: ‘richly illuminated are the signatures of Prince Albert, and the Kings of Prussia and Saxony…’
Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Prince Albert’.
Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] (1819-1861), Prince Consort, consort of Queen Victoria, was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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.177 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes scientific and Royal signatories to the Charter Book: ‘richly illuminated are the signatures of Prince Albert, and the Kings of Prussia and Saxony…’
Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Prince Albert’.
Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] (1819-1861), Prince Consort, consort of Queen Victoria, was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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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