Portrait of Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopuknina
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopuknina, Tsarina of Russia (1669 - 1731, Russian)
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
John Hinton, Publisher
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 108mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Eudoxia, wearing an ermine collar or stole, with a pearl-trimmed cap or crown, tasselled ear-rings, and a pearl necklace, with pendant. Head tilted to the left as viewed. Presented in a circular 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.244-245 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text refers to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek exhibiting his microscopes to Peter the Great in 1698.
Inscribed above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine.’ Inscribed below: ‘EUDOXIA, Wife of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia. Printed for J. Hinton, at the King’s Arms, in Paternoster Row.’
Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopuknina (1669-1731) Tsarina of Russia, consort of Peter the Great.
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.244-245 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text refers to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek exhibiting his microscopes to Peter the Great in 1698.
Inscribed above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine.’ Inscribed below: ‘EUDOXIA, Wife of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia. Printed for J. Hinton, at the King’s Arms, in Paternoster Row.’
Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopuknina (1669-1731) Tsarina of Russia, consort of Peter the Great.
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