Portrait of John Bagford
Date
1728
Sitter
John Bagford (1626 - 1697, Britsh) , Antiquary
Creator
George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
After
Hugh Howard (1675 - 1738, British) , Painter
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 120mm
width (print): 120mm
Description
Half-length portrait of John Bagford. The sitter has long natural hair and is shown wearing a plain coat and cravat, his left hand held across the body. Half-turned to the right as viewed.
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.197 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes John Bagford’s brief comments on the Norfolk Library at Arundel House, transferred to the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘IOHN BAGFORD….’. The print has been cropped and the original attribution is missing: ‘HHoward p. G. Vertue Sculp. 1728’.
John Bagford (1626-1697) British antiquary, collector and shoemaker. His collection of prints and broadsides is now in the British Library’s collections.
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.197 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes John Bagford’s brief comments on the Norfolk Library at Arundel House, transferred to the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘IOHN BAGFORD….’. The print has been cropped and the original attribution is missing: ‘HHoward p. G. Vertue Sculp. 1728’.
John Bagford (1626-1697) British antiquary, collector and shoemaker. His collection of prints and broadsides is now in the British Library’s collections.
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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