Portrait of John Harris
Date
1704
Sitter
John Harris (1661 - 1719, British) , Science writer
Creator
George White (1645 - 1732, British) , Engraver
After
Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 137mm
width (print): 137mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Harris, wearing a wig, gown and bands. Oval surround, with decorative acanthus leaves on a pedestal, with a coat of arms below.
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.354 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld describes the controversy surrounding Dr. John Woodward and the authorship of a satirical pamphlet, The Transactioneer, Harris is mentioned in a letter by Woodward, quoted in the text. The print appeared originally in Harris’s Lexicon technicum; or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences, explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves (London, 1704).
Inscribed below: ‘R.White delin. G. White Sculp. Johannes Harris A.M. Regiae Socius Aetat, Suae 37.’
John Harris (c.1666-1719) British writer and lecturer on science was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696. He served as Secretary, 1709-1710.
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.354 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld describes the controversy surrounding Dr. John Woodward and the authorship of a satirical pamphlet, The Transactioneer, Harris is mentioned in a letter by Woodward, quoted in the text. The print appeared originally in Harris’s Lexicon technicum; or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences, explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves (London, 1704).
Inscribed below: ‘R.White delin. G. White Sculp. Johannes Harris A.M. Regiae Socius Aetat, Suae 37.’
John Harris (c.1666-1719) British writer and lecturer on science was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696. He served as Secretary, 1709-1710.
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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