Portrait of John Milton
Date
1809
Sitter
John Milton (1608 - 1674, British) , Poet
Creator
Thomas Blood (1777 - 1850, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of John Milton, with long natural hair, dressed in a dark coat with a white puritan collar, tied, arms wrapped with a cloak. Shown regarding the viewer, head angled slightly to the right as viewed.
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.259 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote to p.260, Weld refers to correspondence between Henry Oldenburg and John Milton.
Inscription below: ‘JOHN MILTON. PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES & ORME. PATERNOSTER ROW, 1809. BLOOD SC.’
John Milton (1608-1674) British poet and polemicist, author of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and many other works.
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.259 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote to p.260, Weld refers to correspondence between Henry Oldenburg and John Milton.
Inscription below: ‘JOHN MILTON. PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES & ORME. PATERNOSTER ROW, 1809. BLOOD SC.’
John Milton (1608-1674) British poet and polemicist, author of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and many other works.
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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