Portrait of Thomas Hearne
Date
18th century
Sitter
Thomas Hearne (1673 - 1738, British) , Antiquary
Creator
After
Peter Tillemans (1684 - 1734, Flemish) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 183mm
width (print): 120mm
width (print): 120mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of Thomas Hearne, half-turned to the left as viewed, wearing an academic robe and white bands over a coat and waistcoat. Hearne has long natural hair. In an oval frame, 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 engraving appears at p.32; from p.30 Weld’s text quotes from an appendix to Thomas Hearne’s preface to Peter Langtoft’s Chronicle, noting events in the life of John Wallis.
Inscribed above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘THOMAS HEARNE, of Edmund Hall Oxon. Printed for J. Hinton at the King’s Arms in Paternoster Row.’
Thomas Hearne (bap.1678 d.1738) British antiquary and diarist.
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 engraving appears at p.32; from p.30 Weld’s text quotes from an appendix to Thomas Hearne’s preface to Peter Langtoft’s Chronicle, noting events in the life of John Wallis.
Inscribed above: ‘Engraved for the Universal Magazine’. Inscribed below: ‘THOMAS HEARNE, of Edmund Hall Oxon. Printed for J. Hinton at the King’s Arms in Paternoster Row.’
Thomas Hearne (bap.1678 d.1738) British antiquary and diarist.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 1... (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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