Portrait of John Woodward
Date
1774
Sitter
John Woodward (1665 - 1728, British) , Physician
Creator
William Humphrey (1745 - 1810, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of a youthful John Woodward, wearing a long cirlooed wig and cravat. 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.334 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text discusses the publication of Dr. John Woodward’s An essay towards a natural history of the Earth (1695).
Inscribed below: ‘W. Humphrey Fect. DR. WOODWARD. From an Original Picture in the Family of his Executor, the Late Col. Rd. King. Pub. 2 May 1774 by W. Humphrey.’.
John Woodward (1665/1668-1728) British physician, natural historian and antiquary was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1693. He was expelled from Council of the Royal Society in 1710.
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.334 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text discusses the publication of Dr. John Woodward’s An essay towards a natural history of the Earth (1695).
Inscribed below: ‘W. Humphrey Fect. DR. WOODWARD. From an Original Picture in the Family of his Executor, the Late Col. Rd. King. Pub. 2 May 1774 by W. Humphrey.’.
John Woodward (1665/1668-1728) British physician, natural historian and antiquary was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1693. He was expelled from Council of the Royal Society in 1710.
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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