Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19621

    Portrait of Peter Barwick

    Date
    1721
    Sitter
    Peter Barwick (1619 - 1705, British) , Physician
    Creator
    George Vertue (1684 - 1756, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 155mm
    width (print): 92mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Peter Barwick, wearing a long wig, broad lace collar with tie, coat worn with a trimmed sash. Turned to the left as viewed, his head turned to the viewer. In an oval, 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 print appears at p.336 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.

    Inscription below: ‘G. Vertue Sculp. PETRUS BARWICK MD. Serenissimo Regi Carolo IIo. e Medicis ordinariis.’.

    Peter Barwick (1619-1705) British physician, physician in ordinary to King Charles II.
    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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