Portrait of Richard Bentley
Date
1834
Sitter
Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742, British) , philologist
Creator
James Posselwhite (1798 - 1884, British) , Engraver
After
Thomas Hudson (1701 - 1779, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Richard Bentley, in academic dress, wearing a wig. The sitter’s head is turned to the left as viewed: he holds a large book in his right hand.
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.253 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription below: ‘BENTLEY. From a Picture by Hudson in Trinity College, Cambridge. Engraved by J. Posselwhite. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.’. Slightly trimmed: lacking the publisher’s credit to Charles Knight of Ludgate Street and Pall Mall East.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742) British philologist and classical scholar, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
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.253 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription below: ‘BENTLEY. From a Picture by Hudson in Trinity College, Cambridge. Engraved by J. Posselwhite. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.’. Slightly trimmed: lacking the publisher’s credit to Charles Knight of Ludgate Street and Pall Mall East.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742) British philologist and classical scholar, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
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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