Portrait of Charles Yorke
Date
1803
Sitter
Charles Yorke (1722 - 1770, British) , British Lord Chancellor
Creator
William Ridley (1764 - 1838, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 166mm
width (print): 117mm
width (print): 117mm
Subject
Description
Portrait of Charles Yorke in profile, in the manner of a sculpture bust, facing right as viewed. Yorke wears a wig, with a coat and cravat. Presented in an oval frame.
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.346 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text recounts how the papers of Lord Somers, in the possession of Chares Yorke, were destroyed by fire; and the publication of what remained in Miscellaneous State Papers.
Inscription above: ‘European Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘Engraved by Ridley. THE HONBLE. CHARLES YORKE. Natus Jan. 10 1723. Mortuus Jan. 20 1770. Pub. by J. Sewell Cornhill Jan. 1, 1803.’.
Charles Yorke (1722-1770) British Lord Chancellor, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1750.
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.346 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text recounts how the papers of Lord Somers, in the possession of Chares Yorke, were destroyed by fire; and the publication of what remained in Miscellaneous State Papers.
Inscription above: ‘European Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘Engraved by Ridley. THE HONBLE. CHARLES YORKE. Natus Jan. 10 1723. Mortuus Jan. 20 1770. Pub. by J. Sewell Cornhill Jan. 1, 1803.’.
Charles Yorke (1722-1770) British Lord Chancellor, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1750.
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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