Portrait of George, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Cumberland
Date
late 18th century
Sitter
George, Prince of Denmark (1653 - 1708, Danish)
Creator
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 185mm
width (print): 115mm
width (print): 115mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulder portrait of Prince George, wearing a long, curled wig, with an ermine trimmed robe and lace cravat. Head turned slightly to the right as viewed. Presented in an oval, supported on a pedestal.
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.376 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes the election of Prince George to the Royal Society and his role in the publication of John Flamsteed’s Historia Coelestis Britannica.
Inscription above: ‘Printed for the Universal Magazine. Inscribed below: ‘PRINCE GEORGE of Denmark. Printed for J. Hinton at the King’s Arms in Paternoster Row.’.
George, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Cumberland (1653-1708) consort of Queen Anne, was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1704.
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.376 in volume 3 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes the election of Prince George to the Royal Society and his role in the publication of John Flamsteed’s Historia Coelestis Britannica.
Inscription above: ‘Printed for the Universal Magazine. Inscribed below: ‘PRINCE GEORGE of Denmark. Printed for J. Hinton at the King’s Arms in Paternoster Row.’.
George, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Cumberland (1653-1708) consort of Queen Anne, was elected a Royal Fellow of the Royal Society in 1704.
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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