Portrait of Samuel Butler
Date
1749
Sitter
Samuel Butler (British) , Poet
Creator
James Nixon (1741 - 1812, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 99mm
width (print): 65mm
width (print): 65mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Samuel Butler, shown in a wig, lace collar and robe, his right hand held across the body.
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 below: ‘P. Lely pinx. P Lens delin. 1749- Nixon. Scul. SAMUEL BUTLER. Taken from a Picture Painted for the use of the Lord Chancellor Clarendon Now in the Possession of Charles Longueville Esqr.’
Samuel Butler (bap.1613, d.1680) British poet, author of the satirical poems Hudibras and The Elephant in the Moon [on the early Royal Society].
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 below: ‘P. Lely pinx. P Lens delin. 1749- Nixon. Scul. SAMUEL BUTLER. Taken from a Picture Painted for the use of the Lord Chancellor Clarendon Now in the Possession of Charles Longueville Esqr.’
Samuel Butler (bap.1613, d.1680) British poet, author of the satirical poems Hudibras and The Elephant in the Moon [on the early Royal Society].
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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