Portrait of Abel Boyer
Date
c.1715
Sitter
Abel Boyer (1662 - 1729, French-British) , Lexicographer
Creator
Michael Vandergucht (1660 - 1725, Flemish) , Engraver
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Dimensions
height (print): 175mm
width (print): 113mm
width (print): 113mm
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Description
Head and shoulders study of Abel Boyer, part of a book frontispiece design, is shown in an oval frame within a pedestal flanked by Athene (left) and Mercury (right), the latter holding the volume, Boyer’s Royal Dictionary. Behind, eighteen other portraits of poets and intellectuals in oval frames: including Royal Society Fellows, Thomas Sprat and John Locke.
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 engraving appears at p.ix of Weld’s introductory text.
Inscribed within the design ‘The Royal DICTIONARY. French and English by Mr. BOYER’. Inscribed below the main portrait: ‘Mr. A. BOYER T Murray Pinx.’ Inscribed below: ‘B. Lens delin. M. Vdr. Gucht Sculp.
Abel Boyer (1667?-1729) French lexicographer and journalist, author of miscellaneous 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 engraving appears at p.ix of Weld’s introductory text.
Inscribed within the design ‘The Royal DICTIONARY. French and English by Mr. BOYER’. Inscribed below the main portrait: ‘Mr. A. BOYER T Murray Pinx.’ Inscribed below: ‘B. Lens delin. M. Vdr. Gucht Sculp.
Abel Boyer (1667?-1729) French lexicographer and journalist, author of miscellaneous works.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 1... (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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