Portrait of Peter the Great
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Peter I, Tsar of Russia (1672 - 1725, Russian)
Creator
Eustache Danzel (1735 - 1775, French) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 130mm
width (print): 80mm
width (print): 80mm
Description
Head of Peter the Great, wearing armour with a cravat visible beneath. Shown with long natural hair and a moustache. In an oval frame supported 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.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 below: ‘PIERRE LE GRAND. E. Danzel sculp.’
Peter I (1672-1725) Tsar of Russia, known as 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.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 below: ‘PIERRE LE GRAND. E. Danzel sculp.’
Peter I (1672-1725) Tsar of Russia, known as 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
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