Portrait of Joseph Glanvill
Date
1681
Sitter
Joseph Glanvill (1636 - 1680, British) , Clergyman
Creator
William Faithorne (1620 - 1691, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 133mm
width (print): 133mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Joseph Glanville, wearing ecclesiastical robes and bands, with a wig. The sitter is turned slightly to the right as viewed, looking directly to the viewer. Within 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.230 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. A footnote to the text quotes from a letter from John Evelyn to Joseph Glanvill, thanking him for a copy of his book Plus ultra.
Inscribed within the oval: ‘VERA EFFIGIES REVER: VIRI MAG: IOS: GLANVILL CAR: II REG: ASARCRIS & RECTORIS DE BATH IN ARGO SOMERSET. QUI VEHICULUM MUTAVIT QUARTO DIE NOVEMB: 1680.’ Inscribed lower right: ‘W. Faithorne Sculp.’ The print is trimmed at the lower extremities.
Joseph Glanvill [Glanville] (1636-1680) British clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677.
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.230 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. A footnote to the text quotes from a letter from John Evelyn to Joseph Glanvill, thanking him for a copy of his book Plus ultra.
Inscribed within the oval: ‘VERA EFFIGIES REVER: VIRI MAG: IOS: GLANVILL CAR: II REG: ASARCRIS & RECTORIS DE BATH IN ARGO SOMERSET. QUI VEHICULUM MUTAVIT QUARTO DIE NOVEMB: 1680.’ Inscribed lower right: ‘W. Faithorne Sculp.’ The print is trimmed at the lower extremities.
Joseph Glanvill [Glanville] (1636-1680) British clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677.
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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