Portrait of Seth Ward
Date
early 19th century
Sitter
Seth Ward (1617 - 1689, British) , Astronomer
Creator
John Swaine (1775 - 1860, British) , Engraver
After
David Loggan (1634 - 1692, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of Seth Ward, wearing bishop’s robes with bands and a cap. Turned to the right as viewed, looking directly to the viewer and 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, including Seth Ward, in Oxford before the founding of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury. From an Original by D. Loggan. JOHN WALLIS, D.D. F.R.S. J. Swaine Sc.’ The print includes a facsimile signature, inscribed: ‘His Autograph from an Original in the Possession of John Thane’.
Seth Ward (1616-1703) British astronomer and Bishop of Exeter and Salisbury, 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, including Seth Ward, in Oxford before the founding of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury. From an Original by D. Loggan. JOHN WALLIS, D.D. F.R.S. J. Swaine Sc.’ The print includes a facsimile signature, inscribed: ‘His Autograph from an Original in the Possession of John Thane’.
Seth Ward (1616-1703) British astronomer and Bishop of Exeter and Salisbury, 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
Associated place