Portrait of Nicholas Saunderson
Date
1740
Sitter
Nicholas Saunderson (1682 - 1739, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
John Hinton, Publisher
After
John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 160mm
width (print): 115mm
width (print): 115mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Sanderson, wearing a long wig, with a gown and bands over a coat, with shirt sleeves visble. Saunderson holds an armillary sphere in both hands and is shown with eyes closed (Saunderson was blind from childhood). Turned to the left 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.261 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription above: ‘Engrav’d for ye Universal Magazine, for F. Hinton in Newgate Street.’ Inscribed below: ‘NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON, L.L.D.late lucasian Proffessor of Mathematics in Cambridge’.
Nicholas Saunderson, or Sanderson (1682-1739) British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
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.261 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscription above: ‘Engrav’d for ye Universal Magazine, for F. Hinton in Newgate Street.’ Inscribed below: ‘NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON, L.L.D.late lucasian Proffessor of Mathematics in Cambridge’.
Nicholas Saunderson, or Sanderson (1682-1739) British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
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