Portrait of Homer
Date
18th century
Sitter
Homer (Greek) , Poet
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
John Faber the elder (1650 - 1721, Dutch) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 125mm
width (print): 73mm
width (print): 73mm
Subject
Description
Study of a sculpture bust of Homer, copied from an original in the Farnese Collection, Naples; itself a Roman copy of a Greek, or Hellenistic, original.
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.3, as Weld’s text briefly mentions Homer in connection with the Italian scholar Bernardo Massari, or Barlaam of Seminara (c.1290-1348).
Inscribed below: ‘OMHPOE. Ex marmore antique in Aedibus Farnesianis Romae.’
Homer (fl. 9th century B.C.E – 8th century B.C.E.) Greek poet, supposed author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
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.3, as Weld’s text briefly mentions Homer in connection with the Italian scholar Bernardo Massari, or Barlaam of Seminara (c.1290-1348).
Inscribed below: ‘OMHPOE. Ex marmore antique in Aedibus Farnesianis Romae.’
Homer (fl. 9th century B.C.E – 8th century B.C.E.) Greek poet, supposed author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
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
Associated place