Portrait of John Aubrey
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
John Aubrey (1628 - 1697, British) , Antiquary
Creator
John Swaine (1775 - 1860, British) , Engraver
After
William Faithorne (1620 - 1691, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Aubrey, wearing a wig and a sash over the jacket, with a lace collar. Aubrey is shown turned slightly to the left as viewed, regarding the viewer directly. Presented in an oval frame, with a facsimile of Aubrey’s handwriting and a signature below.
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.246 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote to the main text, Weld recounts Aubrey’s biographical summary of Jonathan Goddard.
Inscribed below: ‘J. Swaine sculp. John Aubrey Esqr. The Original is at Oxford.’ Inscribed below the handwriting specimen: ‘His Autograph, from an Original Letter in the Possession of John Thane’.
John Aubrey (1626-1697) British antiquary and biographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
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.246 in volume 2 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote to the main text, Weld recounts Aubrey’s biographical summary of Jonathan Goddard.
Inscribed below: ‘J. Swaine sculp. John Aubrey Esqr. The Original is at Oxford.’ Inscribed below the handwriting specimen: ‘His Autograph, from an Original Letter in the Possession of John Thane’.
John Aubrey (1626-1697) British antiquary and biographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
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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