Portrait of Charles Sackville 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex
Date
c.1810
Sitter
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643 - 1706, British) , Politician
Creator
Edward Scriven (1775 - 1841, British) , Engraver
After
Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Painter
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 83mm
width (print): 83mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of the Earl of Dorset, dressed a long, curled wig, a coat bearing a star, with a cravat at the neck. Head turned to regard the viewer directly, body turned to the right as viewed.
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.332 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text gives an account of the early patronage of Charles Montagu by the Earl of Dorset.
Inscription below: ‘Sir G. Kneller P. E. Scriven S. EARL OF DORSET.’.
Charles Sackville 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) British poet and politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699.
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.332 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text gives an account of the early patronage of Charles Montagu by the Earl of Dorset.
Inscription below: ‘Sir G. Kneller P. E. Scriven S. EARL OF DORSET.’.
Charles Sackville 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) British poet and politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699.
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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