Portrait of Oliver Cromwell
Date
1713
Sitter
Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658, British)
Creator
Michael Vandergucht (1660 - 1725, Flemish) , Engraver
After
Robert Walker (1599 - 1658, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 170mm
width (print): 103mm
width (print): 103mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of Oliver Cromwell, body turned to the left as viewed, face looking directly to the viewer. Cromwell is dressed in armour. Presented 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, one of three relating to this sitter, appears at p.56, as Weld’s History gives an account of the Restoration: the country had been torn by political revolutions, which, after the death of Cromwell, threatened to end in complete anarchy…’
Inscribed below: ‘OLIVER CROMWELL. M. vdr. Gucht Scul. 81’
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland; a commander in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War.
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, one of three relating to this sitter, appears at p.56, as Weld’s History gives an account of the Restoration: the country had been torn by political revolutions, which, after the death of Cromwell, threatened to end in complete anarchy…’
Inscribed below: ‘OLIVER CROMWELL. M. vdr. Gucht Scul. 81’
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland; a commander in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War.
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