Portrait of John Wallis
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
Creator
James Hopwood (British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 110mm
width (print): 110mm
Subject
Description
Half-length study of John Wallis, turned to the right as viewed, wearing a robe over a cassock and white bands. The sitter is shown with a cap over naturally long hair. Presented in an oval 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 engraving appears at p.32 in Weld’s text, which quotes John Wallis’s account of meetings of philosophers in Oxford and London, before the founding of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘JOHN WALLIS, D.D. F.R.S. J. Hopwood sculp.’
John Wallis (1616-1703) British mathematician, cryptographer and clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
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 in Weld’s text, which quotes John Wallis’s account of meetings of philosophers in Oxford and London, before the founding of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘JOHN WALLIS, D.D. F.R.S. J. Hopwood sculp.’
John Wallis (1616-1703) British mathematician, cryptographer and clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
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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