Portrait of Pierre de La Ramée
Date
18th century
Sitter
Pierre de La Ramée (1515 - 1572, French) , Humanist
Creator
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 115mm
width (print): 115mm
Subject
Description
Half-length study of Pierre de La Ramée, sometimes Petrus Ramus, head turned in profile to the right as viewed. The sitter holds a book in his left hand and is presented within an oval frame, supported by a pedestal.
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.8/9, as Weld’s text discusses philosophical doctrines of the sixteenth century, including those of ‘Peter Ramus’.
Inscribed below: ‘PIERRE RAMUS. Mathematicien né à Cuth en Vermandois en 1515 et Assassiné A Paris le jour de St. Barthelemi en 1572.’ Below that, ‘Rame tuis Gallis es, quod latio suit olim. Romani princeps Tullius eloquis.’ The print is credited ‘à Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin’.
Pierre de La Ramée (1515-1572) French humanist, logician and mathematician, murdered during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.
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.8/9, as Weld’s text discusses philosophical doctrines of the sixteenth century, including those of ‘Peter Ramus’.
Inscribed below: ‘PIERRE RAMUS. Mathematicien né à Cuth en Vermandois en 1515 et Assassiné A Paris le jour de St. Barthelemi en 1572.’ Below that, ‘Rame tuis Gallis es, quod latio suit olim. Romani princeps Tullius eloquis.’ The print is credited ‘à Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin’.
Pierre de La Ramée (1515-1572) French humanist, logician and mathematician, murdered during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.
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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