Portrait of Francesco Petrarca
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374, Italian) , Humanist
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 172mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Half-length study of Petrarch, facing, holding a book in his left hand. Dressed in a hood, crowned with a wreath of laurel.
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 pp.5/6, as Weld’s text discusses the relationships between Italian humanists and poets of the early Renaissance.
Inscribed below: ‘PETRARCH’, with six lines of verse from Petrarch to Laura, a poetical epistle, by Charles James (London, J. Walter, 1786).
Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch (1304-1374) Italian humanist and poet.
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 pp.5/6, as Weld’s text discusses the relationships between Italian humanists and poets of the early Renaissance.
Inscribed below: ‘PETRARCH’, with six lines of verse from Petrarch to Laura, a poetical epistle, by Charles James (London, J. Walter, 1786).
Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch (1304-1374) Italian humanist and poet.
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