Portrait of Richard Mead
Date
1749
Sitter
Richard Mead (1673 - 1754, British) , Physician
Creator
Bernard Baron (1696 - 1762, French) , Printmaker
After
Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784, Scottish) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 180mm
width (print): 180mm
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Description
Seated portrait of Richard Mead, turned to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. By a table with two books on top and a note ‘To Dr Mead’. Behind, a statue is visible holding a small bowl and a snake entwined around one arm. From a painting by Allan Ramsay.
Inscribed below: ‘A: Ramsay Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
RICHARDUS MEAD. M.D.
Regis Magnae Britanniae Medicus Ordinarius. 1749’
Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Richard Mead (1673–1754), British physician and collector of books and art, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703.
Inscribed below: ‘A: Ramsay Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
RICHARDUS MEAD. M.D.
Regis Magnae Britanniae Medicus Ordinarius. 1749’
Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Richard Mead (1673–1754), British physician and collector of books and art, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703.
Object history
Charles Turnor presented his Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men … to the Royal Society in 1837.
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