Portrait of Daniel Defoe
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
Daniel Defoe (1655 - 1731, British) , Writer
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Thomas Murray (1663 - 1735, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 157mm
width (print): 107mm
width (print): 107mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Daniel Defoe, wearing a robe over a shirt and cravat, and a long, curled wig. Body turned slightly to the right as viewed, the sitter facing the viewer.
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.348 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote, Defoe’s verses on Lord John Somers are quoted.
Inscription below: ‘DANIEL DE FOE,’.
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) British writer and businessman, author of The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), A journal of the plague year (1722) and many other works.
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.348 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. In a footnote, Defoe’s verses on Lord John Somers are quoted.
Inscription below: ‘DANIEL DE FOE,’.
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) British writer and businessman, author of The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), A journal of the plague year (1722) and many other works.
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
Associated place