Portrait of Johann Andreas Pfeffel
Date
c.1731-1748
Sitter
Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674 - 1748, German) , Engraver
Creator
Johann Georg Pintz (1697 - 1768, German) , Engraver
After
George de Marees (1697 - 1776, Swedish) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 305mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Half-length seated portrait of Johann Andreas Pfeffel, dressed in a robe, over a shirt and waistcoat, and wearing a wig. Pfeffel holds a title-page sheet of Physica sacra in his right hand, indicating towards it with his left.
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.358 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscribed below: ‘Georg. de Marees pinxit. Ioan. Georg. Pintz sculp.’. With an eight-line inscription by Johann Andreas Pfeffel junior.
Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748) German engraver and publisher; publisher of, and contributor to, Physica sacra Johannes Jacobi Scheuchzeri…iconibus aenis illustrata (1731).
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) Swiss natural historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703.
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.358 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscribed below: ‘Georg. de Marees pinxit. Ioan. Georg. Pintz sculp.’. With an eight-line inscription by Johann Andreas Pfeffel junior.
Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748) German engraver and publisher; publisher of, and contributor to, Physica sacra Johannes Jacobi Scheuchzeri…iconibus aenis illustrata (1731).
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) Swiss natural historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703.
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
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733, Swiss) , Natural historian
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
Associated place