Portrait of Herman Boerhaave
Date
1798
Sitter
Herman Boerhaave (1668 - 1738, Dutch) , Physician
Creator
John Chapman (British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 127mm
width (print): 92mm
width (print): 92mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Hermann Boerhaave, wearing a cravat and coat, with a robe over these. Turned to the left as viewed, presented in an oval.
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 print appears at p.328 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text refers to Boerhaave’s opinion of Robert Boyle and his writings.
Inscription below: ‘J. Chapman sculpt. HERMAN BOERHAAVE. M.D.’ Trimmed, lacking the publisher attribution: ‘London. Published as the Act directs, Decr. 8. 1798, by J. Wilkes.’.
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) Dutch physician and botanist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1730.
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 print appears at p.328 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text refers to Boerhaave’s opinion of Robert Boyle and his writings.
Inscription below: ‘J. Chapman sculpt. HERMAN BOERHAAVE. M.D.’ Trimmed, lacking the publisher attribution: ‘London. Published as the Act directs, Decr. 8. 1798, by J. Wilkes.’.
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) Dutch physician and botanist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1730.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 3... (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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