Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19636

    Portrait of Caroline [Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach]

    Date
    18th century
    Sitter
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full length portrait of Queen Caroline, wearing an ermine trimmed robe and a jewelled headpiece, holding a sceptre tipped with a cross and bird. Presented in a decorative 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.373 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes that the then Princess of Wales was a friend of both Gottfried Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton, encouraging the latter to set out his ideas on chronology.

    Inscription below: ‘CAROLINE. Queen of George II.’

    Caroline [Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach], (1683-1737) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Electress of Hanover, consort of King George 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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