Portrait of John Hoskins
Date
1800
Sitter
John Hoskyns (1634 - 1705, British) , Natural philosopher
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
William Richardson, Publisher
After
Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 185mm
width (print): 125mm
width (print): 125mm
Subject
Description
Sir John Hoskins in the form of a sculpture bust, on a pedestal within an arched alcove. With a coat of arms 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.258 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text records a meeting between John Evelyn, Christopher Wren, John Hoskins and a Monsieur Jardine, lately returned from the East Indies.
Inscription below: ‘Sr. Iohn Hoskins. Pub. June 1 1800 by W. Richardson N 31 Strand’.
Sir John Hoskins [Hoskyns] second baronet (1634-1705) British lawyer and natural philosopher was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663. He served as President of the Royal Society, 1682-1683.
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.258 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text records a meeting between John Evelyn, Christopher Wren, John Hoskins and a Monsieur Jardine, lately returned from the East Indies.
Inscription below: ‘Sr. Iohn Hoskins. Pub. June 1 1800 by W. Richardson N 31 Strand’.
Sir John Hoskins [Hoskyns] second baronet (1634-1705) British lawyer and natural philosopher was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663. He served as President of the Royal Society, 1682-1683.
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