Portrait of Nehemiah Grew
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
Nehemiah Grew (1641 - 1712, British) , Botanist
Creator
Robert Newton (British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
Robert John Thornton, Publisher
After
Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Nehemiah Grew, wearing a robe and cravat, with a long wig. Turned to the right as viewed, head inclined towards the viewer. In an oval frame, with a flowering branch above.
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.278 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text describes the publishing of Grew’s Musaeum Regalis Societatis…(1681).
Inscription below: ‘NEHEMIAH GREW M.D. SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY’.
Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) British botanist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1671. He acted as Curator of Plants 1672-1673 and as Secretary 1677-1679.
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.278 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text describes the publishing of Grew’s Musaeum Regalis Societatis…(1681).
Inscription below: ‘NEHEMIAH GREW M.D. SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY’.
Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) British botanist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1671. He acted as Curator of Plants 1672-1673 and as Secretary 1677-1679.
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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